The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016

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The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 was divided, one half awarded to David J. Thouless, the other half jointly to F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz "for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter".

 

 

David J. Thouless

Prize share: 1/2

 

F. Duncan M. Haldane

Prize share: 1/4

 

J. Michael Kosterlitz

Prize share: 1/4

 

 

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