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The 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to three British-born scientists for discoveries about strange forms of matter.
David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz, will share the 8m kronor (£727,000) prize.
They were named at a press conference in Sweden, and join a prestigious list of 200 other Physics laureates recognised since 1901.
The Nobel Committee said the work had "opened the door on an unknown world".
When matter is in extreme conditions, such as when it's very cold or flat, scientists start to see unusual behaviour from the atoms.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-37486373