The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016
The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided on 4 October 2016 to award the Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 with one half to
David J. Thouless
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
and the other half to
F. Duncan M. Haldane
Princeton University, NJ, USA
and
J. Michael Kosterlitz
Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter. More details are available at the web site of the Nobel Prize.
David J. Thouless
University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
and the other half to
F. Duncan M. Haldane
Princeton University, NJ, USA
and
J. Michael Kosterlitz
Brown University, Providence, RI, USA
for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter. More details are available at the web site of the Nobel Prize.
Institute of Physics Belgrade is especially proud that Zlatko Papic, who has done his PhD in physics at the University of Belgrade and Universite Paris Sud (jointly awarded) under supervision of Milica Milovanovic while working at our Scientific Computing Laboratory, has co-authored several papers with one of the Nobel Prize winners, F. Duncan M. Haldane. After postdoc positions at Princeton University and Perimeter Institute, Zlatko is currently a lecturer at School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leeds, UK.