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Kavli Prize Honors Twisted Graphene Pioneers, $1 M Award

6/11/2026

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Physicists Eva Andrei (Rutgers), Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (MIT) and Allan MacDonald (UT-Austin) received the 2026 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience, sharing $1 million.
Eva Andrei’s 2009 study and Allan MacDonald’s 2011 theory each showed how slight graphene twists reshape electronic structure.
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero’s 2018 team observed correlated insulating phases and superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene.
The ceremony will take place in September in Oslo, Norway, presided over by the Royal Family.

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Physicists Eva Andrei (Rutgers), Pablo Jarillo-Herrero (MIT) and Allan MacDonald (UT-Austin) received the 2026 Kavli Prize in Nanoscience, sharing $1 million.
Eva Andrei’s 2009 study and Allan MacDonald’s 2011 theory each showed how slight graphene twists reshape electronic structure.
Pablo Jarillo-Herrero’s 2018 team observed correlated insulating phases and superconductivity in magic-angle twisted bilayer graphene.
The ceremony will take place in September in Oslo, Norway, presided over by the Royal Family.