Scots receive Nobel Prize for 'exotic matter' research
Two Scottish-born scientists have been given this year's Nobel Prize in physics.
Two Scottish-born scientists have received this year's Nobel Prize in physics for work on the secrets of "exotic matter."
Professor David Thouless, who was born in Bearsden in East Dunbartonshire, shared half the prize for his discoveries which organisers said "opened the door on an unknown world".
Professor John Kosterlitz, who is originally from Aberdeen, was jointly awarded the other half of the prize alongside London-born Professor Duncan Haldane.
They were awarded the prize for their "theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter".
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said their work "opened the door" to an unknown world where matter takes unusual states or phases.
Prof Thouless, 82, is a professor emeritus at the University of Washington, while Prof Haldane, 65, is a physics professor at Princeton University in New Jersey.
Prof Kosterlitz, 73, is a physics professor at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Their research was conducted in the 1970s and '80s.
The award was announced in October and presented at a ceremony in Stockholm on Saturday, the anniversary of prize founder Alfred Nobel's death in 1896.
The three shared the prize which has a purse of £730,000. One half of the prize was awarded to Thouless, the other half jointly to Haldane and Kosterlitz.