Nobel Prize in Physics 2016

David J. Thouless

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Prize share: 1/2

F. Duncan M. Haldane

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Prize share: 1/4

J. Michael Kosterlitz

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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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