David J. Thouless
British physicist (1934–2019)
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Updated 2026-05-29
British physicist who won the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics for work on topological phases of matter—the kind of theoretical breakthrough that makes most people's eyes glaze over but earned him shared glory with Haldane and Kosterlitz.
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David James Thouless 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.
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