New Delhi: Three British-born scientists David J Thouless, F Duncan Haldane and J Michael Kosterlitz on Tuesday won the prestigious Nobel Prize in Physics for their groundbreaking theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.


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And for people who are still unaware of topology, a member of the Nobel committee for physics attempts to explain it by using a cinnamon bun, a bagel and a pretzel.


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