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My favourite Nobel prize: a universal theory for phase transitions

24 Sep 2019 Hamish Johnston

With the 2019 Nobel Prize for Physics due to be announced on Tuesday 8 October, Physics World journalists pick their favourite Nobel awards from the past. Here Hamish Johnston argues the case for the 1982 prize for creating a complete and tractable theory of phase transitions

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Different length scales: a phase transition in action. (Courtesy: iStock/hanohiki)
Phase transitions underpin much of physics – from the everyday freezing of liquid water to the eso

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Hamish Johnston is an online editor of Physics World
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