How to Win a Nobel Prize

The Scientistt Podcast

"Last but by no means least, I am happy that I have managed to work since that dreadful day in September 1978 when I was diagnosed with MS."

Life hasn't been easy. Born in 1943 in wartime Aberdeen, Dr Kosterlitz's parents had fled Hitler’s Germany in 1934 because his father, a non-practicing Jew, came from a Jewish family and was forbidden to marry a non-Jewish woman. From these roots, few were to expect that he would go on to be awarded the most prestigious award in the world of Physics - a Nobel Prize. So how did he do it?

A graduate of both of the universities of Cambridge and Oxford, and former professor at Birmingham University and Brown University, we delve deeper in to Dr Kosterlitz's career journey, personal struggle and his award-winning research.

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