<page_title> List of Nobel laureates in Physics </page_title> <section_title> Laureates </section_title> <table> <cell> 2016 <col_header> Year </col_header> <col_header> Melvin Schwartz </col_header> <col_header> Wolfgang Paul </col_header> </cell> <cell> David J. Thouless <col_header> Laureate </col_header> <col_header> Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen </col_header> <col_header> Hendrik Lorentz </col_header> <col_header> Antoine Henri Becquerel </col_header> <col_header> Lord Rayleigh </col_header> <col_header> Philipp Eduard Anton von Lenard </col_header> <col_header> Joseph John Thomson </col_header> <col_header> Albert Abraham Michelson </col_header> <col_header> Gabriel Lippmann </col_header> <col_header> Guglielmo Marconi </col_header> <col_header> Johannes Diderik van der Waals </col_header> <col_header> Wilhelm Wien </col_header> <col_header> Nils Gustaf Dalén </col_header> <col_header> Heike Kamerlingh-Onnes </col_header> <col_header> Max von Laue </col_header> <col_header> William Henry Bragg </col_header> <col_header> Charles Glover Barkla </col_header> <col_header> Max Planck </col_header> <col_header> Johannes Stark </col_header> <col_header> Charles Édouard Guillaume </col_header> <col_header> Albert Einstein </col_header> <col_header> Niels Bohr </col_header> <col_header> Robert Andrews Millikan </col_header> <col_header> Manne Siegbahn </col_header> <col_header> James Franck </col_header> <col_header> Jean Baptiste Perrin </col_header> <col_header> Arthur Holly Compton </col_header> <col_header> Owen Willans Richardson </col_header> <col_header> Louis Victor Pierre Raymond, 7th Duc de Broglie </col_header> <col_header> Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman </col_header> <col_header> Werner Heisenberg </col_header> <col_header> Erwin Schrödinger </col_header> <col_header> James Chadwick </col_header> <col_header> Victor Francis Hess </col_header> <col_header> Clinton Joseph Davisson </col_header> <col_header> Enrico Fermi </col_header> <col_header> Ernest Lawrence </col_header> <col_header> Otto Stern </col_header> <col_header> Isidor Isaac Rabi </col_header> <col_header> Wolfgang Pauli </col_header> <col_header> Percy Williams Bridgman </col_header> <col_header> Edward Victor Appleton </col_header> <col_header> Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett </col_header> <col_header> Hideki Yukawa </col_header> <col_header> Cecil Frank Powell </col_header> <col_header> John Douglas Cockcroft </col_header> <col_header> Felix Bloch </col_header> <col_header> Frits Zernike </col_header> <col_header> Max Born </col_header> <col_header> Willis Eugene Lamb </col_header> <col_header> John Bardeen </col_header> <col_header> Tsung-Dao Lee </col_header> <col_header> Pavel Alekseyevich Cherenkov </col_header> <col_header> Emilio Gino Segrè </col_header> <col_header> Donald Arthur Glaser </col_header> <col_header> Robert Hofstadter </col_header> <col_header> Lev Davidovich Landau </col_header> <col_header> Eugene Paul Wigner </col_header> <col_header> Nicolay Gennadiyevich Basov </col_header> <col_header> Richard Phillips Feynman </col_header> <col_header> Alfred Kastler </col_header> <col_header> Hans Albrecht Bethe </col_header> <col_header> Luis Walter Alvarez </col_header> <col_header> Murray Gell-Mann </col_header> <col_header> Hannes Olof Gösta Alfvén </col_header> <col_header> Dennis Gabor </col_header> <col_header> John Bardeen </col_header> <col_header> Leo Esaki </col_header> <col_header> Martin Ryle </col_header> <col_header> Aage Bohr </col_header> <col_header> Burton Richter </col_header> <col_header> Philip Warren Anderson </col_header> <col_header> Pyotr Leonidovich Kapitsa </col_header> <col_header> Sheldon Lee Glashow </col_header> <col_header> James Watson Cronin </col_header> <col_header> Nicolaas Bloembergen </col_header> <col_header> Kenneth G. Wilson </col_header> <col_header> Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar </col_header> <col_header> Carlo Rubbia </col_header> <col_header> Klaus von Klitzing </col_header> <col_header> Ernst Ruska </col_header> <col_header> Johannes Georg Bednorz </col_header> <col_header> Leon Max Lederman </col_header> <col_header> Norman Foster Ramsey </col_header> <col_header> Jerome I. Friedman </col_header> <col_header> Pierre-Gilles de Gennes </col_header> <col_header> Georges Charpak </col_header> <col_header> Russell Alan Hulse </col_header> <col_header> Bertram Brockhouse </col_header> <col_header> Martin Lewis Perl </col_header> <col_header> David Morris Lee </col_header> <col_header> Steven Chu </col_header> <col_header> Robert B. Laughlin </col_header> <col_header> Gerard 't Hooft </col_header> <col_header> Zhores Ivanovich Alferov </col_header> <col_header> Eric Allin Cornell </col_header> <col_header> Raymond Davis Jr. </col_header> <col_header> Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov </col_header> <col_header> David J. Gross </col_header> <col_header> Roy J. Glauber </col_header> <col_header> John C. Mather </col_header> <col_header> Albert Fert </col_header> <col_header> Makoto Kobayashi </col_header> <col_header> Charles K. Kao </col_header> <col_header> Andre Geim </col_header> <col_header> Saul Perlmutter </col_header> <col_header> Serge Haroche </col_header> <col_header> François Englert </col_header> <col_header> Isamu Akasaki </col_header> <col_header> Takaaki Kajita </col_header> </cell> <cell> "for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter" <col_header> Rationale </col_header> <row_header> David J. Thouless </row_header> </cell> <cell> F. Duncan M. Haldane <col_header> Image </col_header> <col_header> Pieter Zeeman </col_header> <col_header> Pierre Curie </col_header> <col_header> Maria Skłodowska-Curie </col_header> <col_header> Karl Ferdinand Braun </col_header> <col_header> William Lawrence Bragg </col_header> <col_header> Gustav Hertz </col_header> <col_header> Charles Thomson Rees Wilson </col_header> <col_header> Paul Dirac </col_header> <col_header> Carl David Anderson </col_header> <col_header> George Paget Thomson </col_header> <col_header> Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton </col_header> <col_header> Edward Mills Purcell </col_header> <col_header> Walther Bothe </col_header> <col_header> Polykarp Kusch </col_header> <col_header> Walter Houser Brattain </col_header> <col_header> William Bradford Shockley </col_header> <col_header> Chen-Ning Yang </col_header> <col_header> Ilya Frank </col_header> <col_header> Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm </col_header> <col_header> Owen Chamberlain </col_header> <col_header> Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer </col_header> <col_header> Maria Goeppert-Mayer </col_header> <col_header> J. Hans D. Jensen </col_header> <col_header> Alexander Prokhorov </col_header> <col_header> Charles Hard Townes </col_header> <col_header> Julian Schwinger </col_header> <col_header> Shin'ichirō Tomonaga </col_header> <col_header> Louis Néel </col_header> <col_header> Leon Neil Cooper </col_header> <col_header> John Robert Schrieffer </col_header> <col_header> Ivar Giaever </col_header> <col_header> Brian David Josephson </col_header> <col_header> Antony Hewish </col_header> <col_header> Ben Roy Mottelson </col_header> <col_header> Leo James Rainwater </col_header> <col_header> Samuel Chao Chung Ting </col_header> <col_header> Nevill Francis Mott </col_header> <col_header> John Hasbrouck Van Vleck </col_header> <col_header> Arno Allan Penzias </col_header> <col_header> Robert Woodrow Wilson </col_header> <col_header> Abdus Salam </col_header> <col_header> Steven Weinberg </col_header> <col_header> Val Logsdon Fitch </col_header> <col_header> Arthur Leonard Schawlow </col_header> <col_header> Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn </col_header> <col_header> William Alfred Fowler </col_header> <col_header> Simon van der Meer </col_header> <col_header> Gerd Binnig </col_header> <col_header> Heinrich Rohrer </col_header> <col_header> Karl Alexander Müller </col_header> <col_header> Jack Steinberger </col_header> <col_header> Hans Georg Dehmelt </col_header> <col_header> Henry Way Kendall </col_header> <col_header> Richard E. Taylor </col_header> <col_header> Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. </col_header> <col_header> Clifford Glenwood Shull </col_header> <col_header> Frederick Reines </col_header> <col_header> Douglas D. Osheroff </col_header> <col_header> Robert Coleman Richardson </col_header> <col_header> Claude Cohen-Tannoudji </col_header> <col_header> William Daniel Phillips </col_header> <col_header> Horst Ludwig Störmer </col_header> <col_header> Daniel Chee Tsui </col_header> <col_header> Martinus J. G. Veltman </col_header> <col_header> Herbert Kroemer </col_header> <col_header> Jack St. Clair Kilby </col_header> <col_header> Carl Edwin Wieman </col_header> <col_header> Wolfgang Ketterle </col_header> <col_header> Masatoshi Koshiba </col_header> <col_header> Riccardo Giacconi </col_header> <col_header> Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg </col_header> <col_header> Anthony James Leggett </col_header> <col_header> Hugh David Politzer </col_header> <col_header> Frank Wilczek </col_header> <col_header> John L. Hall </col_header> <col_header> Theodor W. Hänsch </col_header> <col_header> George F. Smoot </col_header> <col_header> Peter Grünberg </col_header> <col_header> Toshihide Maskawa </col_header> <col_header> Yoichiro Nambu </col_header> <col_header> Willard S. Boyle </col_header> <col_header> George E. Smith </col_header> <col_header> Konstantin Novoselov </col_header> <col_header> Brian P. Schmidt </col_header> <col_header> Adam G. Riess </col_header> <col_header> David J. Wineland </col_header> <col_header> Peter Higgs </col_header> <col_header> Hiroshi Amano </col_header> <col_header> Shuji Nakamura </col_header> <col_header> Arthur B. McDonald </col_header> </cell> <cell> John M. Kosterlitz <col_header> Image </col_header> <col_header> Pieter Zeeman </col_header> <col_header> Pierre Curie </col_header> <col_header> Maria Skłodowska-Curie </col_header> <col_header> Karl Ferdinand Braun </col_header> <col_header> William Lawrence Bragg </col_header> <col_header> Gustav Hertz </col_header> <col_header> Charles Thomson Rees Wilson </col_header> <col_header> Paul Dirac </col_header> <col_header> Carl David Anderson </col_header> <col_header> George Paget Thomson </col_header> <col_header> Ernest Thomas Sinton Walton </col_header> <col_header> Edward Mills Purcell </col_header> <col_header> Walther Bothe </col_header> <col_header> Polykarp Kusch </col_header> <col_header> Walter Houser Brattain </col_header> <col_header> William Bradford Shockley </col_header> <col_header> Chen-Ning Yang </col_header> <col_header> Ilya Frank </col_header> <col_header> Igor Yevgenyevich Tamm </col_header> <col_header> Owen Chamberlain </col_header> <col_header> Rudolf Ludwig Mössbauer </col_header> <col_header> Maria Goeppert-Mayer </col_header> <col_header> J. Hans D. Jensen </col_header> <col_header> Alexander Prokhorov </col_header> <col_header> Charles Hard Townes </col_header> <col_header> Julian Schwinger </col_header> <col_header> Shin'ichirō Tomonaga </col_header> <col_header> Louis Néel </col_header> <col_header> Leon Neil Cooper </col_header> <col_header> John Robert Schrieffer </col_header> <col_header> Ivar Giaever </col_header> <col_header> Brian David Josephson </col_header> <col_header> Antony Hewish </col_header> <col_header> Ben Roy Mottelson </col_header> <col_header> Leo James Rainwater </col_header> <col_header> Samuel Chao Chung Ting </col_header> <col_header> Nevill Francis Mott </col_header> <col_header> John Hasbrouck Van Vleck </col_header> <col_header> Arno Allan Penzias </col_header> <col_header> Robert Woodrow Wilson </col_header> <col_header> Abdus Salam </col_header> <col_header> Steven Weinberg </col_header> <col_header> Val Logsdon Fitch </col_header> <col_header> Arthur Leonard Schawlow </col_header> <col_header> Kai Manne Börje Siegbahn </col_header> <col_header> William Alfred Fowler </col_header> <col_header> Simon van der Meer </col_header> <col_header> Gerd Binnig </col_header> <col_header> Heinrich Rohrer </col_header> <col_header> Karl Alexander Müller </col_header> <col_header> Jack Steinberger </col_header> <col_header> Hans Georg Dehmelt </col_header> <col_header> Henry Way Kendall </col_header> <col_header> Richard E. Taylor </col_header> <col_header> Joseph Hooton Taylor Jr. </col_header> <col_header> Clifford Glenwood Shull </col_header> <col_header> Frederick Reines </col_header> <col_header> Douglas D. Osheroff </col_header> <col_header> Robert Coleman Richardson </col_header> <col_header> Claude Cohen-Tannoudji </col_header> <col_header> William Daniel Phillips </col_header> <col_header> Horst Ludwig Störmer </col_header> <col_header> Daniel Chee Tsui </col_header> <col_header> Martinus J. G. Veltman </col_header> <col_header> Herbert Kroemer </col_header> <col_header> Jack St. Clair Kilby </col_header> <col_header> Carl Edwin Wieman </col_header> <col_header> Wolfgang Ketterle </col_header> <col_header> Masatoshi Koshiba </col_header> <col_header> Riccardo Giacconi </col_header> <col_header> Vitaly Lazarevich Ginzburg </col_header> <col_header> Anthony James Leggett </col_header> <col_header> Hugh David Politzer </col_header> <col_header> Frank Wilczek </col_header> <col_header> John L. Hall </col_header> <col_header> Theodor W. Hänsch </col_header> <col_header> George F. Smoot </col_header> <col_header> Peter Grünberg </col_header> <col_header> Toshihide Maskawa </col_header> <col_header> Yoichiro Nambu </col_header> <col_header> Willard S. Boyle </col_header> <col_header> George E. Smith </col_header> <col_header> Konstantin Novoselov </col_header> <col_header> Brian P. Schmidt </col_header> <col_header> Adam G. Riess </col_header> <col_header> David J. Wineland </col_header> <col_header> Peter Higgs </col_header> <col_header> Hiroshi Amano </col_header> <col_header> Shuji Nakamura </col_header> <col_header> Arthur B. McDonald </col_header> <col_header> F. Duncan M. Haldane </col_header> </cell> </table>
With David J. Thouless and J. Michael Kosterlitz, Haldane shared the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics "for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter".