British physicist (1934–2019)
David James Thouless (/ˈ θ aʊ l ɛ s [ 5] [ 6] [ 7] condensed-matter physicist .[ 8] Wolf Prize and a laureate of the 2016 Nobel Prize for physics along withF. Duncan M. Haldane andJ. Michael Kosterlitz for theoretical discoveries oftopological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.[ 9]
Born on 21 September 1934 inBearsden , Scotland[ 10] Robert Thouless a psychologist and broadcaster.[ 11] St Faith's School thenWinchester College and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree inNatural Sciences from theUniversity of Cambridge as an undergraduate student ofTrinity Hall, Cambridge .[ 4] Cornell University ,[ 5] [ 12] Hans Bethe was his doctoral advisor.[ 3] [ 13]
Career and research [ edit ] Thouless was apostdoctoral researcher atLawrence Berkeley Laboratory ,University of California, Berkeley , and also worked in the physics department from 1958 to 1959, giving a course on atomic physics.[ 7] [ 14] [ 15] Churchill College , Cambridge, in 1961–1965, professor of mathematical physics at theUniversity of Birmingham in the United Kingdom in 1965–1978,[ 16] Yale University from 1979 to 1980,[ 15] University of Washington [ 17] Seattle in 1980.[ 16] [ 18] [ 19] [ 7] superconductivity phenomena, properties of nuclear matter, and excited collective motions within nuclei.[ 18] [ 19] [ 7]
Thouless made many important contributions to the theory ofmany-body problems .[ 7] atomic nuclei , he cleared up the concept of 'rearrangement energy' and derived an expression for themoment of inertia of deformed nuclei.[ 7] statistical mechanics , he contributed many ideas to the understanding of ordering, including the concept of 'topological ordering '.[ 7] electron states in disorderedlattices .[ 1] [ 7]
Selected papers[ 20]
Thouless was elected aFellow of the Royal Society (FRS) in 1979 ,[ 1] American Physical Society (1986), a Fellow of theAmerican Academy of Arts and Sciences , and a member of the USNational Academy of Sciences (1995).[ 21] Wolf Prize for Physics (1990),[ 22] Paul Dirac Medal of theInstitute of Physics (1993), theLars Onsager Prize [ 23] American Physical Society (2000), and theNobel Prize in Physics (2016).[ 19] [ 7]
Thouless married Margaret Elizabeth Scrase in 1958 and together they had three children.[ 4] dementia .[ 24] [ 6]
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^ Devlin, Hannah; Sample, Ian (4 October 2016)."British trio win Nobel prize in physics 2016 for work on exotic states of matter – live" .The Guardian . Retrieved4 October 2016 . ^a b David Thouless at theMathematics Genealogy Project ^a b c d Anon (2016)."BBC Radio 4 profile: Professor David J Thouless" . London: BBC. ^a b "Thouless, Prof. David James" Who's Who Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black.(Subscription orUK public library membership required.) ^a b "Professor David Thouless 1934–2019" .Trinity Hall, Cambridge . 6 April 2019. Retrieved8 April 2019 .^a b c d e f g h i "David J. Thouless Facts" . Nobel Prize.org. Retrieved13 October 2020 .^ "Physicist Thouless to give two talks at Lab" . Archived from the original on 15 October 2006. Retrieved4 October 2016 .{{cite web }}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link )Los Alamos National Laboratory ^ The international who's who 1991–92 ISBN 9780946653706 ^ Sturrock, Laura (5 October 2016)."Bearsden scientist is awarded Nobel prize in Physics" .Kirkintilloch Herald . Retrieved6 October 2016 . ^ David Thouless, 84, Dies; Nobel Laureate Cast Light on Matter New York Times, 2019-04-22.^ Thouless, David James (1958).The application of perturbation methods to the theory of nuclear matter OCLC 745509629 . ^ Lee, Sabine (8 April 2011).From Nuclei to Stars: Festschrift in Honor of Gerald E. Brown ISBN 9789814329880 ^ "UW Professor Emeritus David J. Thouless wins Nobel Prize in physics for exploring exotic states of matter | UW Today" .www.washington.edu . Retrieved7 April 2017 .^a b "David Thouless" . aip.org. Archived fromthe original on 5 October 2016. Retrieved10 October 2016 .^a b "Two former Birmingham scientists awarded Nobel Prize for Physics" .University of Birmingham . 4 October 2016. Retrieved4 October 2016 .^ Nijs, Marcel den (31 May 2019). "David Thouless (1934–2019)".Science .364 (6443): 835.Bibcode :2019Sci...364..835D .doi :10.1126/science.aax9125 .ISSN 0036-8075 .PMID 31147511 .S2CID 206668153 . ^a b "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016" .NobelPrize.org .^a b c Gibney, Elizabeth; Castelvecchi, Davide (2016)."Physics of 2D exotic matter wins Nobel: British-born theorists recognized for work on topological phases" .Nature .538 (7623). London:Springer Nature : 18.Bibcode :2016Natur.538...18G .doi :10.1038/nature.2016.20722 PMID 27708331 . ^ David Thouless publications indexed by theScopus bibliographic database.(subscription required) ^ "David Thouless" .National Academy of Sciences Online . Archived fromthe original on 10 October 2016. Retrieved9 October 2016 .^ David J. Thouless Winner of Wolf Prize in Physics – 1990 Archived 5 October 2016 at theWayback Machine on the official website of Wolf Foundation^ "2018 Stanley Corrsin Award Recipient" .www.aps.org .^ Knapton, Sarah (4 October 2016)."British scientists win Nobel prize in physics for work so baffling it had to be described using bagels" .The Telegraph . Retrieved24 September 2017 .
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