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
Citizenship	United Kingdom
Education	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
Workplaces	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.