David J. Thouless
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David J. Thouless was a British physicist who made groundbreaking discoveries about how materials behave at very low temperatures and in strong magnetic fields, work that helped explain unusual electrical properties in certain materials. His contributions to understanding quantum physics earned him recognition as one of the most important theoretical physicists of his generation and influenced how scientists think about the structure of matter itself.
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- 1934-09-21
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- 2019-04-06
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David James Thouless (/ˈθaʊlɛs/; 21 September 1934 – 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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1934 births2019 deaths21st-century American physicistsAcademics of the University of BirminghamAlumni of Clare Hall, CambridgeAlumni of Trinity Hall, CambridgeAmerican fellows of the Royal SocietyAmerican Nobel laureatesAmerican nuclear physicistsBritish emigrants to the United StatesBritish fellows of the Royal SocietyBritish Nobel laureates