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Michael Kosterlitz
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British physicist
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Nobel Prize
- The Nobel Prize in Physics2016
“for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter”
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Michael
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Aberdeen
- Father
- Hans W. Kosterlitz
- Occupation
- university teacher
- Educated at
- Brasenose College
- Employer
- University of Birmingham
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Religion
- atheism
- Award
- Lars Onsager Prize
- Doctoral advisor
- David J. Thouless
- Field of work
- physicist
- Official website
- vivo.brown.edu/display/jkosterl
- Image
- 2016 Nobel Reception US Embassy Sweden (31557185216) (cropped).jpg
- Residence
- Providence
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- date of birth
- 1943-06-22
- member of
- National Academy of Sciences
- Commons category
- Michael Kosterlitz
- birth name
- John Michael Kosterlitz
- writing language
- English language
- name in native language
- John Michael Kosterlitz
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- interested in
- physics
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Encyclopedic overview
John Michael Kosterlitz (born June 22, 1943) 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.
Education and early life
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