The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016
Awarded on: 2016-10-04
"for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter"
Affiliations:
- Brown University – Providence, RI, USA
J. Michael Kosterlitz
Born: 1943-06-22 in Aberdeen, United Kingdom
Gender: male
Field: British physicist
Biography
John Michael Kosterlitz is a Scottish-American physicist. He is a professor of physics at Brown University and the son of biochemist Hans Kosterlitz. He was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in physics along with David Thouless and Duncan Haldane for work on condensed matter physics.