This guidebook describes a cliff in North Wales where Michael Kosterlitz spent a lot of free time. Rock climbing is Kosterlitz’s passion, alongside physics. Rock climbing involves risks, and mistakes can be fatal. During the climb, all other thoughts are excluded. You must constantly concentrate on the next metres of the climb, and the outside world is blocked out.
Michael Kosterlitz donated the guidebook to the Nobel Prize Museum in 2016.
This graph shows data that are consistent with the theory of phase transitions that David Thouless and Michael Kosterlitz developed. Thouless received the graph as a gift from colleagues on his 65th birthday and hung it on his office wall. David Thouless’ main contributions to physics are theoretical discoveries. Experiments confirming his theories have been performed by other physicists. This graph shows data from experiments by John Reppy and David Bishop.
David Thouless donated the graph to the Nobel Prize Museum in 2016.
