Professor
J. Michael Kosterlitz
Brown University
Physicist; Educator
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Physics
Elected
2007
Major contributions to the development of theoretical physics. With David Thouless, in the 1970s developed the theory of topological phase transitions. Two publications in the Journal of Physics in 1973-74 laid the foundation of this field and have since been cited over 6,600 times.
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