Aharon Kapitulnik (Hebrew: אהרון קפיטולניק; born 1953) is an Israeli-American experimental condensed matter physicist working at Stanford University.
[1] Kapitulnik studied physics at Tel Aviv University in Israel (BA 1978, PhD 1983).
After completing his doctoral studies under supervision of Guy Deutscher on the physics of disorder he moved to United States to work on polymers as a postdoc scholar in the group of Alan Heeger at UC Santa Barbara.
[2] At Stanford, Kapitulnik formed a close collaboration with Theodore Geballe and Malcolm Beasley known collectively as the "KGB group".
He was awarded the 2015 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize of the American Physical Society for the "discovery and pioneering investigations of the superconductor-insulator transition, a paradigm for quantum phase transitions"[8] and 2009 Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes Prize for "seminal studies of time-reversal-symmetry breaking effects in unconventional superconductors using magneto optics".