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Born | John Michael Kosterlitz June 22, 1943[1] Aberdeen, Scotland, United Kingdom |
Residence | Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. |
Citizenship | United States |
Nationality | British |
Fields | Condensed matter physics |
Institutions | Brown University University of Birmingham |
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Academic advisors | David Thouless (postdoc) |
Known for | Kosterlitz–Thouless transition |
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John Michael Kosterlitz (born June 22, 1943) is a British-American physicist. He is a professor of physics at Brown University[4] 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.[2]
References
- ↑ "J. Michael Kosterlitz - Facts". Nobel Foundation. https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2016/kosterlitz-facts.html. Retrieved 2016-11-02.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Gibney, Elizabeth; Castelvecchi, Davide (2016). "Physics of 2D exotic matter wins Nobel: British-born theorists recognized for work on topological phases". Nature (London: Springer Nature) 538 (7623): 18–18. .
- ↑ "Lars Onsager recipient 2000, John Michael Kosterlitz Brown University". American Physical Society. http://www.aps.org/programs/honors/prizes/prizerecipient.cfm?last_nm=Kosterlitz&first_nm=John&year=2000.
- ↑ "Kosterlitz Research profile at Brown University". Brown University. https://research.brown.edu/research/profile.php?id=1143831933.
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