David Bishop wins prestigious prize for his contributions to understanding superfluids

David Bishop was awarded the 2026 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Physics Prize on November 5, 2025, for groundbreaking experiments that uncovered the role of vortices in the superfluid phase transition in helium films and observed anyonic braiding statistics of quasiparticles in the fractional quantum Hall effect, thus establishing the significance of topological excitations in two-dimensions.

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ENG Prof Elected Fellow of National Academy of Inventors: David Bishop a prolific real-world innovator

By Sara Rimer BU Today In the late 1990s, with an expected explosion in demand for internet bandwidth, the telecommunications industry was scrambling to devise switches that would rapidly transmit massive amounts of data—videos, music, photos, email. David Bishop, a College of Engineering professor of electrical and computer engineering and head of the Division of […]