{"id":18677,"date":"2016-10-06T16:30:51","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T21:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/?p=18677"},"modified":"2016-10-06T16:40:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T21:40:09","slug":"nobel-prize-in-physics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/18677","title":{"rendered":"Nobel Prize in Physics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded &#8220;for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter&#8221; on October 4th to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>David J. Thouless, University of Washington, Seattle, WA<\/li>\n<li>F. Duncan M. Haldane, Princeton University, NJ<\/li>\n<li>J. Michael Kosterlit, Brown University, Providence, RI<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Some of their work is available for free online right now through World Scientific Publishing Co.:<\/p>\n<p>Two chapters of <em>Topological Quantum Numbers in Nonrelativistic Physics<\/em> by David J Thouless<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldscientific.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1142\/9789812386298_0004\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Superconductivity and Flux Quantization&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldscientific.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1142\/9789812386298_0009\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Topological Phase Transitions&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>One chapter from <em>40 Years of Berezinskii-Kosterlitz-Thouless Theory<\/em> edited by Jorge V Jos\u00e9<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldscientific.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1142\/9789814417648_0001\" target=\"_blank\">Early Work on Defect Driven Phase Transitions<\/a> by J. Michael Kosterlitz and David J. Thouless\t<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you&#8217;d like to read more about this year&#8217;s Nobel Laureates take a look at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nobelprize.org\/nobel_prizes\/physics\/laureates\/2016\/press.html\" target=\"_blank\">nobelprize.org webpage<\/a> for this year&#8217;s award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded &#8220;for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter&#8221; on October 4th <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/archives\/18677\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[3298,69107,229],"class_list":["post-18677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-around-the-world","tag-nobel-prize","tag-nobel-prize-winner","tag-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18677"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18682,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18677\/revisions\/18682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}