Nobel Prize, Physics
Posted by billhoward
Nobel Prize, Physics
Posted by: billhoward (---.nwrk.east.verizon.net)
Date: October 04, 2016 01:28PM
3 winners for physics. One got his PhD at Cornell. One worked at (among other places) Cornell. [www.nytimes.com]
NYTimes
Dr. [David J] Thouless, 82, was born in Bearsden, Scotland, was an undergraduate at Cambridge University and received a Ph.D. in 1958 from Cornell. He taught mathematical physics at the University of Birmingham in England from 1965 to 1978, where he collaborated with Dr. Kosterlitz. He joined the University of Washington in Seattle in 1980, where he is now an emeritus professor
Dr. [J Michael] Kosterlitz, 73, was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and received his doctorate in high energy physics from Oxford University in 1969. He has worked at the University of Birmingham; at the Instituto di Fisica Teorica in Turin, Italy; and Cornell, Princeton, Bell Laboratories and Harvard.
Re: Nobel Prize, Physics
Posted by: David Harding (---.hsd1.il.comcast.net)
Date: October 04, 2016 11:56PM
More details in the Cornell Chronicle.billhoward
3 winners for physics. One got his PhD at Cornell. One worked at (among other places) Cornell. [www.nytimes.com]
NYTimes
Dr. [David J] Thouless, 82, was born in Bearsden, Scotland, was an undergraduate at Cambridge University and received a Ph.D. in 1958 from Cornell. He taught mathematical physics at the University of Birmingham in England from 1965 to 1978, where he collaborated with Dr. Kosterlitz. He joined the University of Washington in Seattle in 1980, where he is now an emeritus professor
Dr. [J Michael] Kosterlitz, 73, was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and received his doctorate in high energy physics from Oxford University in 1969. He has worked at the University of Birmingham; at the Instituto di Fisica Teorica in Turin, Italy; and Cornell, Princeton, Bell Laboratories and Harvard.
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