David J. Thouless

David J. Thouless
David Thouless in 1995
Born
David James Thouless

(1934-09-21)21 September 1934
Bearsden, Scotland
Died6 April 2019(2019-04-06) (aged 84)
Cambridge, England
NationalityBritish
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom
Alma mater
Known for
Spouse
Margaret Elizabeth Scrase
(m. 1958)
ChildrenThree[4]
Awards
Scientific career
FieldsCondensed matter physics
Institutions
ThesisThe application of perturbation methods to the theory of nuclear matter (1958)
Doctoral advisorHans Bethe[3]
Notable studentsJ. Michael Kosterlitz (postdoc)[4]

David James Thouless FRS[1][5] (/ˈθlɛs/; 21 September 1934 – 6 April 2019[6][7][8]) was a British condensed-matter physicist.[9] He was the winner of the 1990 Wolf Prize and a laureate of the 2016 Nobel Prize for physics along with F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.[10]

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  2. ^ Devlin, Hannah; Sample, Ian (4 October 2016). "British trio win Nobel prize in physics 2016 for work on exotic states of matter – live". The Guardian. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
  3. ^ David J. Thouless at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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  9. ^ "Physicist Thouless to give two talks at Lab". Archived from the original on 15 October 2006. Retrieved 4 October 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), Los Alamos National Laboratory
  10. ^ The international who's who 1991–92. Europa Publ. 25 July 1991. ISBN 9780946653706 – via Google Books.