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Michael Kosterlitz

Born	John Michael Kosterlitz (1943-06-22) June 22, 1943 (age 77)^[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
Alma mater	University of Cambridge (BA, MA) University of Oxford (DPhil)
Academic advisors	David Thouless (postdoc)
Known for	Kosterlitz–Thouless transition
Notable awards	Nobel Prize in Physics (2016)^[2] Lars Onsager Prize (2000)^[3]

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. doi:10.1038/nature.2016.20722 .
↑ "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.

v t e Winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics

1901–1925	Röntgen (1901) · Lorentz / Zeeman (1902) · Becquerel / P. Curie / M. Curie (1903) · Rayleigh (1904) · Lenard (1905) · Thomson (1906) · Michelson (1907) · Lippmann (1908) · Marconi / Braun (1909) · van der Waals (1910) · Wien (1911) · Dalén (1912) · Kamerlingh Onnes (1913) · Laue (1914) · W. L. Bragg / W. H. Bragg (1915) · Barkla (1917) · Planck (1918) · Stark (1919) · Guillaume (1920) · Einstein (1921) · N. Bohr (1922) · Millikan (1923) · M. Siegbahn (1924) · Franck / Hertz (1925)

1926–1950	Perrin (1926) · Compton / C. Wilson (1927) · O. Richardson (1928) · De Broglie (1929) · Raman (1930) · Heisenberg (1932) · Schrödinger / Dirac (1933) · Chadwick (1935) · Hess / C. D. Anderson (1936) · Davisson / Thomson (1937) · Fermi (1938) · Lawrence (1939) · Stern (1943) · Rabi (1944) · Pauli (1945) · Bridgman (1946) · Appleton (1947) · Blackett (1948) · Yukawa (1949) · Powell (1950)

1951–1975	Cockcroft / Walton (1951) · Bloch / Purcell (1952) · Zernike (1953) · Born / Bothe (1954) · Lamb / Kusch (1955) · Shockley / Bardeen / Brattain (1956) · Yang / T. D. Lee (1957) · Cherenkov / Frank / Tamm (1958) · Segrè / Chamberlain (1959) · Glaser (1960) · Hofstadter / Mössbauer (1961) · Landau (1962) · Wigner / Goeppert-Mayer / Jensen (1963) · Townes / Basov / Prokhorov (1964) · Tomonaga / Schwinger / Feynman (1965) · Kastler (1966) · Bethe (1967) · Alvarez (1968) · Gell-Mann (1969) · Alfvén / Néel (1970) · Gabor (1971) · Bardeen / Cooper / Schrieffer (1972) · Esaki / Giaever / Josephson (1973) · Ryle / Hewish (1974) · A. Bohr / Mottelson / Rainwater (1975)

1976–2000	Richter / Ting (1976) · P. W. Anderson / Mott / Van Vleck (1977) · Kapitsa / Penzias / R. Wilson (1978) · Glashow / Salam / Weinberg (1979) · Cronin / Fitch (1980) · Bloembergen / Schawlow / K. Siegbahn (1981) · K. Wilson (1982) · Chandrasekhar / Fowler (1983) · Rubbia / van der Meer (1984) · von Klitzing (1985) · Ruska / Binnig / Rohrer (1986) · Bednorz / Müller (1987) · Lederman / Schwartz / Steinberger (1988) · Ramsey / Dehmelt / Paul (1989) · Friedman / Kendall / R. Taylor (1990) · de Gennes (1991) · Charpak (1992) · Hulse / J. Taylor (1993) · Brockhouse / Shull (1994) · Perl / Reines (1995) · D. Lee / Osheroff / R. Richardson (1996) · Chu / Cohen-Tannoudji / Phillips (1997) · Laughlin / Störmer / Tsui (1998) · 't Hooft / Veltman (1999) · Alferov / Kroemer / Kilby (2000)

2001–present	Cornell / Ketterle / Wieman (2001) · Davis / Koshiba / Giacconi (2002) · Abrikosov / Ginzburg / Leggett (2003) · Gross / Politzer / Wilczek (2004) · Glauber / Hall / Hänsch (2005) · Mather / Smoot (2006) · Fert / Grünberg (2007) · Nambu / Kobayashi / Maskawa (2008) · Kao / Boyle / Smith (2009) · Geim / Novoselov (2010) · Perlmutter / Riess / Schmidt (2011) · Wineland / Haroche (2012) · Englert / Higgs (2013) · Akasaki / Amano / Nakamura (2014) · Kajita / McDonald (2015) · Thouless / Haldane / Kosterlitz (2016) · Weiss / Barish / Thorne (2017) · Ashkin / Mourou / Strickland (2018) · Mayor / Peebles / Queloz (2019)

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