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Michael Kosterlitz
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John Michael Kosterlitz
June 22, 1943 |
Nationality | British |
Citizenship | United States |
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Known for | Kosterlitz–Thouless transition |
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Fields | Condensed matter physics |
Institutions | Brown University University of Birmingham |
Thesis | Problems in strong interaction physics (1969) |
Academic advisors | David Thouless (postdoc) |
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.
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