The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016
Awarded on: 2016-10-04
"for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter"
Affiliations:
- University of Washington – Seattle, WA, USA
David J. Thouless
Born: 1934-09-21 in Bearsden, United Kingdom
Gender: male
Field: British physicist (1934–2019)
Biography
David James Thouless 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.