David J. Thouless
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| Gender | Male |
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| Death | 5 years ago |
| Date of birth | September 21,1934 |
| Zodiac sign | Virgo |
| Born | Bearsden |
| United Kingdom | |
| Date of died | April 6,2019 |
| Nationality | American |
| Scottish | |
| British | |
| Died | Cambridge |
| United Kingdom | |
| Interests | *Created With Permission |
| Spous | Margaret Elizabeth Scrase |
| Children | Three |
| Awards | Wolf Prize in Physics |
| Nobel Prize in Physics | |
| Dirac Medal of the Institute of Physics | |
| Education | Cornell University |
| University of Cambridge | |
| Trinity Hall Cambridge | |
| Clare Hall, University of Cambridge | |
| Clare Hall | |
| Notable student | J. Michael Kosterlitz |
| Academic advisor | Hans Bethe |
| Books | Topological Quantum Numbers in Nonrelativistic Physics |
| The Quantum Mechanics of Many-body Systems | |
| Publications | scholar.google.com |
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| ID | 681478 |
David J. Thouless Life story
David James Thouless FRS was a British condensed-matter physicist. 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.
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