David James Thouless FRS (21 September 1934 – 6 April 2019) 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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21 September 1934 Bearsden, Scotland
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Died |
6 April 2019 (aged 84) Cambridge, England
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Zodiac | Virgo |
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