An Aberdeen-born scientist has been awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in physics.
Michael Kosterlitz joins British-born scientists David Thouless and Duncan Haldane as winners of the award, for work that “revealed the secrets of exotic matter”.
The three “opened the door” to an unknown world where matter takes unusual states or phases, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said.
They were awarded for their “theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter”.
Professor Kosterlitz, who lived in Aberdeen until he was 16, is the son of celebrated University of Aberdeen scientist Hans Kosterlitz, who discovered enkephalins – the body’s natural painkillers.
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