David J. Thouless
British physicist (1934–2019) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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David James Thouless FRS[2][5] (/ˈθaʊlɛs/; 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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Born | David James Thouless (1934-09-21)21 September 1934 Bearsden, Scotland |
Died | 6 April 2019(2019-04-06) (aged 84) Cambridge, England |
Nationality | British |
Citizenship | United Kingdom |
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Margaret Elizabeth Scrase
(m. 1958) |
Children | Three[1] |
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Fields | Condensed matter physics |
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Thesis | The application of perturbation methods to the theory of nuclear matter (1958) |
Doctoral advisor | Hans Bethe[4] |
Notable students | J. Michael Kosterlitz (postdoc)[1] |
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