J. Michael Kosterlitz
British-American physicist · United Kingdom · On the map · Scientists · Born 1943 · age 83
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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Michael Victor BerryBoth received Maxwell Medal and Prize
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