News conference with the professor of physics will be live-streamed at 3:00 pm on Tuesday, October 4.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded Brown University Professor J. Michael Kosterlitz the Nobel Prize in Physics “for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.”
[A news conference with Professor Kosterlitz will be live-streamed at http://www.brown.edu/web/livestream/ at 3 p.m. on Tuesday, October 4. Media who wish to attend in person or ask questions by telephone should email brian_clark@brown.edu with KOSTERLITZ as the subject line.]
Kosterlitz is the Harrison E. Farnsworth Professor of Physics at Brown, where he joined the faculty in 1982. He shares one half of the Nobel prize with F. Duncan M. Haldane of Princeton University, with the other half of the Nobel going to David J. Thouless of the University of Washington in Seattle.