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David J. Thouless

1934 - 2019

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David James Thouless (; 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. David J. Thouless is the 46th most popular physicist (up from 210th in 2019), the 129th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 556th in 2019) and the 15th most popular British Physicist.

David Thouless is most famous for his work in the field of condensed matter physics. He is a professor at the University of Washington and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2016.

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Among physicists, David J. Thouless ranks 46 out of 851. Before him are Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, Charles H. Townes, Pieter Zeeman, William Gilbert, Luigi Galvani, and Nevill Francis Mott. After him are Charles Édouard Guillaume, Philip Warren Anderson, Gustav Kirchhoff, Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit, Brian Josephson, and Gabriel Lippmann.

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Among people born in 1934, David J. Thouless ranks 7. Before him are Yuri Gagarin, Brigitte Bardot, Sophia Loren, Pratibha Patil, Charles Manson, and Leonard Cohen. After him are Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark, Albert II of Belgium, Gene Cernan, Maggie Smith, Richard Chamberlain, and Giorgio Armani. Among people deceased in 2019, David J. Thouless ranks 5. Before him are Toni Morrison, Jacques Chirac, Niki Lauda, and Karl Lagerfeld. After him are Mohamed Morsi, Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Robert Mugabe, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Jeffrey Epstein, Robert Forster, and Rutger Hauer.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David J. Thouless ranks 129 out of 8,785. Before him are Roger Taylor (1949), Edward III of England (1312), Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley (1545), Emily Brontë (1818), Edward II of England (1284), and Æthelred I, King of Wessex (837). After him are Edward I of England (1239), Edward Elgar (1857), Diana, Princess of Wales (1961), Henry VII of England (1457), Paul McCartney (1942), and Alfred the Great (849).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, David J. Thouless ranks 15. Before him are Robert Hooke (1635), Charles Thomson Rees Wilson (1869), Owen Willans Richardson (1879), James Clerk Maxwell (1831), William Gilbert (1544), and Nevill Francis Mott (1905). After him are Brian Josephson (1940), Patrick Blackett (1897), Charles Glover Barkla (1877), Paul Dirac (1902), James Chadwick (1891), and C. F. Powell (1903).

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