David J. Thouless

David James Thouless FRS^[3] (/ˈdeɪvᵻd ˈdʒeɪmz ˈθaʊlɛs/, born 21 September 1934; deed 6 Aprile 2019)^[5] wis a Scots condensed-matter pheesicist.^[6] He is a winner of the Wolf Prize an laureate o the 2016 Nobel Prize for pheesics alang wi F. Duncan M. Haldane an J. Michael Kosterlitz for theoretical discoveries o topological phase transeetions an topological phases o matter.^[7][8][9]

David Thouless
Thouless in 2016
Born	David James Thouless 21 September 1934(1934-09-21) Bearsden, Scotland[1]
Dee'd	6 Aprile 2019 (aged 84) Cambridge, Ingland
Residence	Unitit Kinrick[2]
Naitionality	Breetish, Scots
Citizenship	Unitit Kinrick
Alma mater	Trinity Hall, Cambridge (BA) Cornell Varsity (PhD)
Kent for	Kosterlitz–Thouless transeetion Thouless energy Topological quantum nummers
Hauf-marrae(s)	Margaret Elizabeth Scrase (m. 1958)
Bairns	three[2]
Awairds	Maxwell Medal an Prize (1973) Fellae o the Ryal Society (1979)[3] Lars Onsager Prize (2000) Nobel Prize in Pheesics (2016)[4]
Scientific career
Fields	Condensed matter pheesics
Institutions	Varsity o Washington Varsity o Californie, Berkeley Varsity o Birmingham Yale Varsity
Thesis	The application of perturbation methods to the theory of nuclear matter (1958)
Doctoral advisor	Hans Bethe
Notable students	J. Michael Kosterlitz (postdoc)[2]

References

1. Sturrock, Laura (5 October 2016). "Bearsden scientist is awarded Nobel prize in Physics". Kirkintilloch Herald. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
2. "BBC Radio 4 profile: Professor David J Thouless". bbc.co.uk. London: BBC.
3. Anon (1979). "Professor David Thouless FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived frae the original on 17 November 2015. Ane or mair o the precedin sentences incorporates text frae the royalsociety.org wabsteid whaur:

   “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived September 25, 2015)

4. Devlin, Hannah; Sample, Ian (4 October 2016). "British trio win Nobel prize in physics 2016 for work on exotic states of matter – live". the Guardian. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
5. THOULESS, Prof. David James. ukwhoswho.com. Who's Who. 2016 (online Oxford University Press ed.). A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc. (subscription needit)
6. "Physicist Thouless to give two talks at Lab". Archived frae the original on 15 October 2006. Retrieved 18 November 2016.CS1 maint: BOT: original-url status unknown (link), Los Alamos National Laboratory
7. The international who's who 1991-92
8. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016
9. Gibney, Elizabeth; Castelvecchi, Davide (2016). "Physics of 2D exotic matter wins Nobel: British-born theorists recognized for work on topological phases". Nature. London: Springer Nature. 538 (7623): 18–18. doi:10.1038/nature.2016.20722. Cite has empty unkent parameter: |1= (help)