David J. Thouless
British physicist
David James Thouless FRS (/ˈθaʊlɛs/; 21 September 1934 – 6 April 2019) was a British physicist.[6] He is a winner of the Wolf Prize and the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics along with F. Duncan M. Haldane and J. Michael Kosterlitz for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.[7][8][9]
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Born | David James Thouless 21 September 1934 Bearsden, Scotland[1] |
Died | 6 April 2019 | (aged 84)
Nationality | British |
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Spouse | Margaret Elizabeth Scrase (m. 1958) |
Children | 3[3] |
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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[5] |
Notable students | J. Michael Kosterlitz (postdoc)[3] |
In 2016, Thouless was reported to be suffering from dementia.[10] He died on 6 April 2019 in Cambridge, at the age of 84.[2]
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