David James Thouless (21 September 1934 to 6 April 2019) was a British condensed-matter physicist. He was awarded the 1990 Wolf Prize and was a laureate of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics, sharing it with F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.
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David James Thouless (21 September 1934 to 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.
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Born: 21 September 1934 in Bearsden, Scotland
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Born: 21 September 1934 in Bearsden, Scotland
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Died: 6 April 2019 (aged 84) in Cambridge, England
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Died: 6 April 2019 (aged 84) in Cambridge, England
Works In: Physics, Lead section, 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics
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.
Associated With: F. Duncan M. Haldane, Lead section, 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics co-laureates
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.
Associated With: J. Michael Kosterlitz, Lead section, 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics co-laureates
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.
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