Exclusion principle and quantum mechanics : lecture given in Stockholm after the award of the Nobel prize of physics 1945

Charles Paul Enz, Karl von Meÿenn

The history of the discovery of the exclusion principle, for which I have received the honor of the Nobel Prize award this year, goes back to my student days in Munich. While, in school in Vienna, I...

F. D. M. Haldane

Nobel Lecture, presented December 8, 2016, Aula Magna, Stockholm University. I will describe the history and background of three discoveries cited in this Nobel Prize: The "TKNN" topological formula for the integer quantum Hall effect found by David Thouless and collaborators, the Chern insulator or quantum anomalous Hall effect, and its role in the later discovery of time-reversal-invariant topological insulators, and the unexpected topological spin-liquid state of the spin-1 quantum antiferromagnetic chain, which provided an initial example of topological quantum matter. I will summarize how these early beginnings have led to the exciting, and currently extremely active, field of "topological matter."1 MoreReceived 17 June 2017DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/RevModPhys.89.040502© 2017 Nobel Foundation, Published by The American Physical Society*The 2016 Nobel Prize for Physics was shared by David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane, and John Michael Kosterlitz. These papers are the text of the address given in conjunction with the award.Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)Research AreasTopological defectsTopological phase transitionTopological phases of matterGeneral PhysicsInterdisciplinary Physics

Wolfgang Ernst Friederich Pauli

Robert Marc Friedman

In 1933 the Nobel prizes seemed of little importance compared with the global economic depression and the rise to power of the Nazis, but many physicists still kept a watchful eye on Stockholm. Their bewilderment and chagrin over the most recent decisions by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences had fuelled anticipation. No prize had been awarded in physics since 1930, yet recent theoretical and experimental achievements had led to a revolutionary new quantum-mechanical depiction of the atom. Would the Academy finally acknowledge these accomplishments?