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Michael Kosterlitz

John Michael Kosterlitz

British physicist.

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Sex or Gender

Male

Country of Citizenship

United Kingdom
United States

Instance Of

Human

Employer

Brown University
University of Birmingham

Occupation

Physicist
University Teacher

Date of Birth

6/22/1943

Given Name

John
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Michael (First Name)
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Member Of

American Academy of Arts and Sciences
National Academy of Sciences

Father

Hans W. Kosterlitz

Award Received

Nobel Prize in Physics
 (2016)
Together With
:
David J. Thouless
Together With
:
Duncan Haldane
Award Rationale
: for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter
Award Rationale
: för teoretiska upptäckter av topologiska fasövergångar och topologiska materiefaser
Point in Time
: 2016
Prize Money
: 2,000,000 Swedish krona
Maxwell Medal and Prize
 (1981)
Point in Time
: 1981
Fellow of the American Physical Society
Lars Onsager Prize
 (2000)
Point in Time
: 2000
Point in Time
: 2000

Family Name

Kosterlitz

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Place of Birth

Aberdeen

Field of Work

Physicist

Birth Name

John Michael Kosterlitz

Educated At

Gonville and Caius College
Robert Gordon's College
Brasenose College

Religion or Worldview

Atheism

Official Website

https://vivo.brown.edu/display/jkosterl

Doctoral Advisor

David J. Thouless

Residence

Providence

Languages Spoken, Written or Signed

English

Writing Language

English

Name in Native Language

John Michael Kosterlitz

Interested In

Physics
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