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何天伦（Tin-Lun Ho），1951年8月出生，理论物理学家，美国艺术与科学院院士、美国物理学会会士、美国科学促进会会士，俄亥俄州立大学数学及物理科学杰出教授。
1951年8月，何天伦出生于中国内地，不足1岁时到香港定居，中小学就读于香港培英学校。
1972年，毕业于香港中文大学崇基学院，随后进入明尼苏达大学深造。
1973年，转入康奈尔大学。
1977年，获得康奈尔大学博士学位，导师为N.D. Mermin。
1977年9月－1980年8月，在伊利诺伊大学和北欧理论物理研究所，跟随C.J. Pethick从事博士后研究。
19809月－1982年12月，在加利福尼亚大学圣塔芭芭拉分校理论物理研究所从事博士后研究。
1983年1月，加入俄亥俄州立大学物理学系，担任助理教授，1989年7月晋升为副教授，1996年7月晋升为教授。
2002年1月，担任俄亥俄州立大学数学及物理科学杰出教授。
2008年，获得美国物理学会拉斯·昂萨格奖，是继杨振宁之后第二位获得该奖项的华人科学家。
2011年－2020年，担任香港科技大学赛马会高等研究院资深访问学人。
2012年5月，担任清华大学高等研究院教授。
何天伦主要从事冷原子物理领域的研究工作，在旋量玻色凝聚体、高自旋费米子配对、快速旋转玻色气体、强相互作用气体普适性、量子临界系统性质的理论算法、光晶格中的熵局域化和制冷方案等方面取得了开创性研究成果。
何天伦在光晶格中的熵局域化和制冷方案的理论研究方面做了开拓性的工作，给出了如何由被束缚气体的密度分布来推算均匀体系中的气体性质的算法方案，给出了确定量子临界系统性质的理论算法。
1995年至2013年2月，何天伦发表SCI论文40篇，总被引次数超过2000次。
代表性论文：
Zhu Z, Weng ZY, Ho TL. Spin and charge modulations in a single-hole-doped Hubbard ladder: Verification with optical lattice experiments Physical Review a - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics. 93. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.93.033614
Ho TL, Huang B. Spinor Condensates on a Cylindrical Surface in Synthetic Gauge Fields. Physical Review Letters. 115: 155304. PMID 26550734 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.115.155304
Cui X, Ho TL. Phase separation in mixtures of repulsive Fermi gases driven by mass difference. Physical Review Letters. 110: 165302. PMID 23679612 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.110.165302
Cui X, Lian B, Ho TL, Lev BL, Zhai H. Synthetic gauge field with highly magnetic lanthanide atoms Physical Review a - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics. 88. DOI: 10.1103/Physreva.88.011601
Ho TL, Cui X, Li W. Alternative route to strong interaction: narrow Feshbach resonance. Physical Review Letters. 108: 250401. PMID 23004575 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.250401
Li W, Ho TL. Bose gases near unitarity. Physical Review Letters. 108: 195301. PMID 23003053 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.195301
Lian B, Ho TL, Zhai H. Searching for non-Abelian phases in the Bose-Einstein condensate of dysprosium Physical Review a - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics. 85. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.85.051606
Shenoy VB, Ho TL. Nature and properties of a repulsive Fermi gas in the upper branch of the energy spectrum. Physical Review Letters. 107: 210401. PMID 22181859 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.210401
Ho TL, Zhang S. Bose-Einstein condensates with spin-orbit interaction. Physical Review Letters. 107: 150403. PMID 22107273 DOI: 10.1103/Physrevlett.107.150403
Zhou Q, Ho TL. Universal thermometry for quantum simulation. Physical Review Letters. 106: 225301. PMID 21702611 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.106.225301
Zhou Q, Ho TL. Signature of quantum criticality in the density profiles of cold atom systems. Physical Review Letters. 105: 245702. PMID 21231535 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.105.245702
Ho TL, Zhou Q. Squeezing out the entropy of fermions in optical lattices. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 106: 6916-20. PMID 19365065 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0809862105
Ho TL, Zhou Q. Intrinsic heating and cooling in adiabatic processes for bosons in optical lattices. Physical Review Letters. 99: 120404. PMID 17930480 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.120404
Zhai H, Ho TL. Superfluid-insulator transition of strongly interacting fermi gases in optical lattices. Physical Review Letters. 99: 100402. PMID 17930378 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.99.100402
Diener RB, Zhou Q, Zhai H, Ho TL. Criterion for bosonic superfluidity in an optical lattice. Physical Review Letters. 98: 180404. PMID 17501548 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.98.180404
Ho TL, Zhai H. Homogeneous fermion superfluid with unequal spin populations Journal of Low Temperature Physics. 148: 33-41. DOI: 10.1007/s10909-007-9350-9
Zhai H, Ho TL. Critical rotational frequency for superfluid fermionic gases across a Feshbach resonance. Physical Review Letters. 97: 180414. PMID 17155531 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.180414
Diener RB, Ho TL. 52Cr spinor condensate: a biaxial or uniaxial spin nematic. Physical Review Letters. 96: 190405. PMID 16803091 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.190405
Sensarma R, Randeria M, Ho TL. Vortices in superfluid fermi gases through the BEC to BCS crossover. Physical Review Letters. 96: 090403. PMID 16606246 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.090403
Diener RB, Ho TL. Fermions in optical lattices swept across Feshbach resonances. Physical Review Letters. 96: 010402. PMID 16486425 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.010402
Mueller EJ, Ho TL, Ueda M, Baym G. Fragmentation of Bose-Einstein condensates Physical Review a - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics. 74. DOI: 10.1103/Physreva.74.033612
Diener RB, Ho TLPhysical Review a - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics. 73. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevA.73.017601
Ho TL, Diener RB. Fermion superfluids of nonzero orbital angular momentum near resonance. Physical Review Letters. 94: 090402. PMID 15783945 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.94.090402
Ho TL, Mueller EJ. High temperature expansion applied to fermions near Feshbach resonance. Physical Review Letters. 92: 160404. PMID 15169207 DOI: 10.1103/Physrevlett.92.160404
Ho TL. Universal thermodynamics of degenerate quantum gases in the unitarity limit. Physical Review Letters. 92: 090402. PMID 15089456 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.090402
Ho TL, Ciobanu CV. The Schrödinger Cat family in attractive Bose gases Journal of Low Temperature Physics. 135: 257-266. DOI: 10.1023/B:Jolt.0000024552.87247.Eb
Mueller EJ, Ho TL. Stripe formation in Bose-Einstein condensates with large numbers of vortices Physical Review a - Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics. 67: 636021-636025. DOI: 10.1103/Physreva.67.063602
Ho TL. Bose-Einstein condensates with large number of vortices Physical Review Letters. 87: 604031-604034.
Ho TL. Spinor bose condensates in optical traps Physical Review Letters. 81: 742-745.
Ho TL. Broken symmetry of two-component = 1/2 quantum hall states Physical Review Letters. 75: 1186-1189. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.75.1186
Ho TL. Quantum Hall ferromagnets Physical Review Letters. 73: 874-877. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.73.874
Ho TL. Oscillatory tunneling between quantum Hall systems Physical Review B. 50: 4524-4533. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.50.4524
Rabson DA, Ho T‐, Mermin ND. Aperiodic tilings with non‐symmorphic space groups p2jgm Acta Crystallographica Section A. 44: 678-688. DOI: 10.1107/S0108767388003733
Ho TL, Liu SH. Semihydrogenation of triple bonds in 1-alkene solutions Synthetic Communications. 17: 969-973. DOI: 10.1080/00397918708063955
Ho TL. Effect of quantum voltage fluctuations on the resistance of normal junctions Physical Review Letters. 51: 2060-2063. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.51.2060
Ho TL. Superfluidity of a spin-1/2 Bose fluid: Spin-polarized hydrogen Physical Review Letters. 49: 1837-1840. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.49.1837
Ho TL. Solitons in quasi one-dimensional spin- and charge-density-wave systems Physical Review Letters. 48: 946-949. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.48.946
Ho TLPhysical Review B. 25: 3395. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.25.3395
Ho TL, Mermin ND. Equilibrium order parameters and chemical potentials in rotating superfluids Physical Review B. 21: 5190-5197. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.21.5190
Ho TL. Continuous creation and annihilation of coreless vortices in He3-A in the presence of a heat flow Physical Review Letters. 41: 1473-1477. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.41.1473
Ho TL. Coreless vortices in superfluid He3-A: Topological structure, nucleation, and the screening effect Physical Review B. 18: 1144-1153. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.18.1144
Bhattacharyya P, Ho TL, Mermin ND. Stability of superflow in He3-A Physical Review Letters. 39: 1691. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.39.1691.2
Mermin ND, Ho TL. Circulation and angular momentum in the A phase of superfluid helium-3 Physical Review Letters. 36: 594-597. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.36.594
自1996年以来，何天伦已培养的博士研究生和博士后包括布朗大学教授Vivek Shenoy、科罗拉多矿业大学教授Cristian Ciobanu、马里兰大学联合量子研究所博士后研究员Qi Zhou、北京大学教授尹澜、台湾”中央研究院“研究员Sung Kit Yip、毕尔肯大学教授Mehmet Oktel、康奈尔大学教授Erich Mueller、清华大学高等研究院教授翟荟、美国国防部高级研究计划局高级顾问Roberto Diener、香港大学副教授张世忠等。
何天伦的母亲及兄长仍在香港生活。他与韩裔妻子育有两名女儿，均在美国居住。
表彰其对量子液体和稀薄量子气体 （包括对于多分量和快速旋转研究）的贡献，以及他将这一领域从凝聚态物理和原子物理两个不同方面的研究联合起来的领导力。（2008年拉斯·昂萨格奖颁奖词）
何天伦是国际冷原子物理领域领军人物，对该领域的理论和实验发展都起到了重要的推动作用。（清华大学评）
何天伦在物理学的理论研究十分著名，属物理界理论最具份量的学者之一。（时任香港科技大学理学院副院长吴大琪教授评）