David Thouless
September 21, 1934 –April 6, 2019
Physicist, University teacher, Nuclear physicist
Lived 84 years
- Born in
- Bearsden
- Passed away in
- Cambridge
David James Thouless (; 21 September 1934 – 6 April 2019) was a British condensed-matter physicist. He was awarded 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.
Awards: Fellow of the Royal Society, Holweck Prize, Fritz London Award, Wolf Prize in Physics, Nobel Prize in Physics, IOP Dirac Medal, Fellow of the American Physical Society, Maxwell Medal and Prize, Lars Onsager Prize Education: Trinity Hall, Cornell University, Clare Hall
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