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Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to three British scientists

Tuesday, 04 October 2016 7:16 PM [ Last Update: Tuesday, 04 October 2016 7:18 PM ]

The winners of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics were announced in Stockholm, Sweden, on Tuesday October 4.

The Nobel jury has announced three British scientists as the winners of this year’s Nobel Physics Prize.

David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz have been awarded a 931,000 dollar prize for revealing the secrets of exotic matter.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences says their findings, using advanced mathematics, had improved frontline research in condensed matter physics and raised hopes for uses in new generations of electronics and superconductors or future quantum computers.

The Nobel prizes were first awarded in 1901 to honor outstanding achievements in science, literature and peace in accordance with the will of the Swedish inventor Alfred Nobel.

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