David J. Thouless - Nobel Prize in Physics — 2016
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David J. Thouless

Prize
Nobel Prize in Physics — 2016
for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter
Together with: Duncan Haldane, J. Michael Kosterlitz
Citizenship
United KingdomUnited KingdomUnited StatesUnited States
Languages
English
date of birth
9/21/1934
place of birth
Bearsden
date of death
4/6/2019
place of death
Cambridge
Lived
84 years

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occupation
  • university teacher
  • nuclear physicist
  • physicist
field of work
  • nuclear physics
educated at
  • Trinity Hall
  • Cornell University
  • Clare Hall
employer
  • University of Washington
  • University of Birmingham
  • Yale University
member of
  • Royal Society of London
    • start time: 3/15/1979
  • National Academy of Sciences
    • start time: 1995
  • American Academy of Arts and Sciences
doctoral student
  • Jung Hoon Han
  • Qian Niu
  • J. Michael Kosterlitz
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