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David J. Thouless

David J. Thouless
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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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Who was born first?

Timeline

  1. Carlo RubbiaMarch 31, 1934 – present
  2. Chintamani Nagesa Ramachandra RaoJune 30, 1934 – present
  3. David J. Thouless (this page)September 21, 1934 – April 6, 2019
  4. Gilbert StrangNovember 27, 1934 – present
  5. Michael ArtinJune 28, 1934 – present
  6. Stanton T. FriedmanJuly 29, 1934 – May 13, 2019

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