David Thouless

Professor
David Thouless
FRS
Professor David Thouless FRS
	David Thouless in 1995
Born	David James Thouless; 21 September 1934; Bearsden, Scotland
Died	6 April 2019 (aged 84); Cambridge, England
Nationality	British
Citizenship	United Kingdom
Alma mater	Winchester College; University of Cambridge (BA); Cornell University (PhD);
Known for	Berezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless transition; Thouless energy; KTHNY theory; Topological quantum numbers;
Spouse	Margaret Elizabeth Scrase (m. 1958)
Children	3
Awards	Maxwell Medal and Prize (1973); Fellow of the Royal Society (1979); Holweck Prize (1980); Fritz London Memorial Prize (1984); Wolf Prize (1990); Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1995); Lars Onsager Prize (2000); Nobel Prize in Physics (2016);
	Scientific career
Fields	Condensed matter physics
Institutions	University of Washington; University of California, Berkeley; University of Birmingham; Yale University;
Thesis	The application of perturbation methods to the theory of nuclear matter (1958)
Doctoral advisor	Hans Bethe
Notable students	J. Michael Kosterlitz (postdoc)

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.

Professor David Thouless FRS
David Thouless in 1995
Born	David James Thouless (1934-09-21)21 September 1934 Bearsden, Scotland
Died	6 April 2019(2019-04-06) (aged 84) Cambridge, England
Nationality	British
Citizenship	United Kingdom
Alma mater	Winchester College University of Cambridge (BA) Cornell University (PhD)
Known for	Berezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless transition Thouless energy KTHNY theory Topological quantum numbers
Spouse	Margaret Elizabeth Scrase (m. 1958)
Children	3
Awards	Maxwell Medal and Prize (1973) Fellow of the Royal Society (1979) Holweck Prize (1980) Fritz London Memorial Prize (1984) Wolf Prize (1990) Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1995) Lars Onsager Prize (2000) Nobel Prize in Physics (2016)
Scientific career
Fields	Condensed matter physics
Institutions	University of Washington University of California, Berkeley University of Birmingham Yale University
Thesis	The application of perturbation methods to the theory of nuclear matter (1958)
Doctoral advisor	Hans Bethe
Notable students	J. Michael Kosterlitz (postdoc)