Supported by: Joan McAlpine*, Graeme Dey*, Ben Macpherson*, Tom Arthur*, Fulton MacGregor*, Richard Lyle*, Ivan McKee*, Stuart McMillan*, Kenneth Gibson*, Jenny Gilruth*, John Finnie*, David Torrance* *S5M-01969 Willie Rennie: Nobel Prize Successes That the Parliament congratulates the trio — of scientists born in Scotland who have received Nobel Prizes for their contributions to physics and chemistry; notes that Professor David J Thouless (University of Washington), originally from Bearsden, was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 2016 alongside Professor J Michael Kosterlitz (Brown University), who was born in Aberdeen, and Professor F Duncan M Haldane (Princeton University), for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter; further notes that Sir J Fraser Stoddart, born in Edinburgh, educated at the University of Edinburgh and now of Northwestern University, was jointly awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2016, alongside Professors Bernard L...