The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016
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David J. Thouless
Prize share: 1/2
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F. Duncan M. Haldane
Prize share: 1/4
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J. Michael Kosterlitz
Prize share: 1/4
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 was awarded with one half to David J. Thouless, and the other half to F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz "for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter."
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