The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded Tuesday morning to three British scientists for their work in helping unveil the secrets of “exotic matter.” The $931,000 prize was distributed among David Thouless, of the University of Washington; Duncan Haldane, at Princeton University; and Michael Kosterlitz of Brown University. “This year’s laureates opened the door on an unknown world where matter can assume strange states,” the Nobel Foundation said in a statement. “They have used advanced mathematical methods to study unusual phases, or states, of matter, such as superconductors, superfluids or thin magnetic films.”
