Nicola A. Spaldin
A materials theorist who investigates why electric and magnetic order can coexist. Her calculations and conceptual work helped establish multiferroics as a field of materials design.
Multiferroic materials · explained
research · explained
Multiferroics combine more than one type of ordered property, often electric polarization and magnetic order. Coupling between them can make electric control of magnetism possible. Not every multiferroic has equally strong coupling or works under practical device conditions.
Evidence
Citation Laureates identifies influential research. Recognition is not a prediction of a Nobel winner in a particular year.