British physicist
John Michael Kosterlitz (born June 22, 1943) is a British-American physicist. He is a professor of physics atBrown University [ 4] biochemist Hans Kosterlitz . He was awarded the 2016Nobel Prize in physics along withDavid Thouless andDuncan Haldane for work oncondensed matter physics .[ 1]
Education and early life [ edit ] He was born inAberdeen , Scotland,[ 5] German-Jewish émigrés, the son of the pioneering biochemist[ 6] Hans Walter Kosterlitz and Hannah Gresshöner. He was educated independently atRobert Gordon's College before transferring to theEdinburgh Academy to prepare for his university entrance examinations.[ 7] BA degree, subsequently converted to anMA degree, atGonville and Caius College, Cambridge .[ 5] DPhil degree[ 8] University of Oxford as a postgraduate student ofBrasenose College, Oxford .[ 5]
Career and research [ edit ] After a fewpostdoctoral positions, including positions at theUniversity of Birmingham , collaborating withDavid Thouless ,[ 5] Cornell University ,[ 5] University of Birmingham in 1974,[ 5] Brown University . Kosterlitz was[when? a visiting research fellow atAalto University in Finland[citation needed and since 2016 a distinguished professor atKorea Institute for Advanced Study .
Kosterlitz does research incondensed matter theory, one- and two-dimensional physics; inphase transitions : random systems,electron localization , andspin glasses ; and in critical dynamics:melting andfreezing .[citation needed
Michael Kosterlitz was awarded theNobel Prize in Physics in 2016, “for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter”;[ 9] Maxwell Medal and Prize from the BritishInstitute of Physics in 1981, and theLars Onsager Prize from theAmerican Physical Society in 2000, especially, for his work on theBerezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless transition . Since 1992, he has been a Fellow of theAmerican Physical Society .[ 10]
The Kosterlitz Centre at theUniversity of Aberdeen is named in honour of his father, Hans Kosterlitz, a pioneering biochemist specializing in endorphins, who joined the faculty after fleeing Nazi persecution of Jews in 1934.[ 11]
Kosterlitz was a pioneer inAlpine climbing in the 1960s, known for working routes in the UK, Italian Alps, and Yosemite.[ 12] f6B/6a+ ) in theOrco Valley of the Italian Alps, which was subsequently named after him, and the first repeat of American Direct (gradedED1 6c+ ) on the West Face of thePetit Dru in theMont Blanc Massif .[ 13] Nuovo Mattino ("New Morning") movement of alpinism in the 1970s, where free,aid -less ascents made using new technologies (such ascamming devices ) became favoured.[ 13]
Kosterlitz is an American citizen and is an atheist.[ 14] multiple sclerosis in 1978.[ 15]
^a b Gibney, Elizabeth; Castelvecchi, Davide (2016)."Physics of 2D exotic matter wins Nobel: British-born theorists recognized for work on topological phases" .Nature 538 (7623). London:Springer Nature : 18.Bibcode :2016Natur.538...18G .doi :10.1038/nature.2016.20722 PMID 27708331 . ^ "Lars Onsager recipient 2000, John Michael Kosterlitz Brown University" .aps.org .American Physical Society .^ "J. Michael Kosterlitz - Facts" .Nobel Foundation . Retrieved2016-11-02 .^ "Kosterlitz Research profile at Brown University" .brown.edu . Brown University.^a b c d e f "Two former Birmingham scientists awarded Nobel Prize for Physics" .University of Birmingham . 4 October 2016. Retrieved4 October 2016 .^ Anatomy of a Scientific Discovery: The Race to Find the Body's Own Morphine , by Jeff Goldberg, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc., 13 Dec 2013,Brain Soup ^ Davidson, Peter (12 December 2016)."Aberdeen-born Academic Picks Up Nobel Prize for Physics" . Evening Express. Retrieved15 December 2016 . ^ Kosterlitz, John Michael (1969).Problems in strong interaction physics EThOS 711269 . Archived fromthe original on October 27, 2016. ^ Devlin, Hannah; Sample, Ian (2016-10-04)."British trio win Nobel prize in physics 2016 for work on exotic states of matter – live" .the Guardian . Retrieved2016-10-04 . ^ "APS Fellow Archive" .www.aps.org . Retrieved2022-08-11 .^ "Launch of Kosterlitz Centre in Aberdeen 2010" .abn.ac.uk . University of Aberdeen. 16 September 2010.^ "Mike Kosterlitz 2016 Nobel Prize Winner" .alpine-club.org.uk . Alpine Club. 15 October 2016.^a b "British Climber Michael Kosterlitz awarded Nobel Prize in Physics" .ukclimbing.com . UK Climbing 10/2016. 5 October 2016.^ “J. Michael Kosterlitz - Biographical. ” Nobelprize.org, . "I was a nominal church going Christian until I left home for Cambridge University on a scholarship when, to my great relief, I could drop all religion and become my natural atheist self...My wife and I finally became citizens of the USA in 2004." ^ “J. Michael Kosterlitz - Biographical. ” Nobelprize.org, . "It turned out I did indeed suffer from MS."
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