J. Michael Kosterlitz
J. Michael Kosterlitz · Science & Medicine
Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter
22 June 1943, Aberdeen, Scotland
United Kingdom · United States
J. Michael Kosterlitz is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter
Michael Kosterlitz was born in Aberdeen to German Jewish émigrés — his father was the biochemist Hans Walter Kosterlitz, who had fled Germany in 1934. With David Thouless he showed in the 1970s that two-dimensional systems can undergo a phase transition driven by the pairing of vortices, the Kosterlitz-Thouless transition; the work opened the field of topological states of matter and brought them the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2016.
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Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter
Source: Wikipedia — J. Michael Kosterlitz
