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General Category => John Spencer Is Dead => Topic started by: billhoward on October 04, 2016, 01:28:54 PM

Title: Nobel Prize, Physics
Post by: billhoward on October 04, 2016, 01:28:54 PM
3 winners for physics. One got his PhD at Cornell. One worked at (among other places) Cornell. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/05/science/nobel-prize-physics-topology.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

Quote from: NYTimesDr. [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.
Title: Re: Nobel Prize, Physics
Post by: David Harding on October 04, 2016, 11:56:05 PM
Quote from: billhoward3 winners for physics. One got his PhD at Cornell. One worked at (among other places) Cornell. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/05/science/nobel-prize-physics-topology.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

Quote from: NYTimesDr. [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.
More details in the Cornell Chronicle (http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2016/10/two-cornell-ties-share-2016-nobel-prize-physics).