David J. Thouless, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

David J. Thouless

British physicist

Date of Birth: 21-Sep-1934

Place of Birth: Bearsden, Scotland, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 06-Apr-2019

Profession: physicist, university teacher, nuclear physicist

Nationality: United States, United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

David James Thouless (; 21 September 1934 – 6 April 2019) was a British condensed-matter physicist.
He was the winner of 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.