Three Britons, David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz have won the 2016 Nobel physics prize.
They will share the 8m kronor (£727,000) prize.
They are being awarded for discoveries about strange forms of matter.
The Nobel Committee said this year’s laureates had “opened the door on an unknown world”. In this mysterious realm, matter can exist in strange states.
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