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It excludes vehicles and business sellers. Welcome to Scientific American Science Talk posted on October 4th, 2016. I'm Steve Merski.

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics,

with one half to David J. Thoules, and the other half to F. Duncan Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz.

For theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological

phases of matter.

Goran Hansen, Secretary General of the Academy this morning in Stockholm.

David J. Thoules was born in Beirsten in the United Kingdom in 1934.

He is now emeritus professor at the University of Washington in Seattle in the United States. Duncan Haldane was born in London in 1951.

He is the Eugene Higgins Professor of Physics at Princeton University, New Jersey, United States.

And J. Michael Costellitz was born in Aberdeen in the United Kingdom in 1942.

And he's currently Harrison Farnsworth Professor of Physics at Brown University, Rhode Island, USA.

And now Professor Nils Mortensen, the acting chairman of the Nobel Committee, will provide

some introductory remarks on the Nobel Prize in physics.

This year's Nobel Prize recognizes important discoveries in the field of condensed matter

physics.

And today's advanced technology, take for instance our computers, rely on our ability to understand

and control the properties of the materials involved.

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