Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society (2026).
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J. Michael Kosterlitz
John Michael Kosterlitz is a British-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.
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Born 22 June 1943 · Q1700920
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2016· 3 entries
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (2016).
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“for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter”; the Maxwell Medal and Prize from the British Institute of Physics in 1981, and the Lars Onsager Prize from the American Phy
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2000· 2 entries
Awarded Lars Onsager Prize (2000).
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Especially, for his work on the Berezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless transition
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1981· 1 entry
Won Maxwell Medal and Prize (1981).
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1974· 1 entry
First as a lecturer and, later, as a reader
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1969· 1 entry
Earned a DPhil degree from the University of Oxford as a postgraduate student of Brasenose College, Oxford
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1943· 1 entry
Born 1943-06-22.
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