The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016

The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016

Question: Nobel Prize in Physics for this year has been awarded to …?
a) David J. Thouless
b) F. Duncan M. Haldane
c) J. Michael Kosterlitz
d) a, b & c
Ans: (d)
Related facts:

  • On 4th October, 2016 The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 jointly to David J. Thouless (Prize share: ½), F. Duncan M. Haldane (Prize share: ¼) and J. Michael Kosterlitz (Prize share: ¼) “for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter”.
  • Three British physicists working at US universities have won the Nobel Prize in Physics for revealing the secrets of exotic matter.
  • This year’s laureates opened the door on an unknown world where matter can assume strange states. They have used advanced mathematical methods to study unusual phases, or states, of matter, such as superconductors, superfluids or thin magnetic films.
  • The 8 million Swedish Krona prize (more than US $931,000) was divided between the three laureates according to their contributions — one half awarded to David Thouless of the University of Washington, and the other half jointly to Duncan Haldane of Princeton University and Michael Kosterlitz of Brown University.
  • The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded 110 times to 204 Nobel Laureates between 1901 and 2016. John Bardeen is the only Nobel Laureate who has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics twice, in 1956 and 1972. This means that a total of 203 individuals have received the Nobel Prize in Physics.

Reference:
https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2016/
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/10/04/world/2016-nobel-prize-physics/
http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-37486373