David J. Thouless
David Thouless | |
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Born | David James Thouless 21 September 1934 Bearsden, Scotland |
Died | 6 April 2019 Cambridge, England | (aged 84)
Nationality | British |
Citizenship | United Kingdom |
Alma mater |
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Known for | |
Spouse |
Margaret Elizabeth Scrase
(m. 1958) |
Children | Three[4] |
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Scientific career | |
Fields | Condensed matter physics |
Institutions | |
Thesis | The application of perturbation methods to the theory of nuclear matter (1958) |
Doctoral advisor | Hans Bethe[3] |
Notable students | J. Michael Kosterlitz (postdoc)[4] |
David James Thouless
Education
Born on 21 September 1934 in
Career and research
Thouless was a
Thouless made many important contributions to the theory of
Academic papers
Selected papers[21] include:
- ISSN 0022-3719.
- Thouless, D. J.; Kohmoto, M.; Nightingale, M. P.; den Nijs, M. (1982). "Quantized Hall Conductance in a Two-Dimensional Periodic Potential". Physical Review Letters. 49 (6): 405–408. ISSN 0031-9007.
Books
- Thouless, D. J. (1998). Topological Quantum Numbers in Nonrelativistic Physics. Singapore: World Scientific. OCLC 38431218.
- Thouless, D. J. (1961). The Quantum Mechanics of Many-Body Systems (1st ed.). New York: Academic Press. OCLC 901492152.
Awards and honours
Thouless was elected a
Personal life
Thouless married Margaret Elizabeth Scrase in 1958 and together they had three children.[4] In 2016, Thouless was reported to be suffering from dementia.[25] He died on 6 April 2019 in Cambridge, aged 84.[7]
See also
References
- ^ a b c d Anon (1979). "Professor David Thouless FRS". London: royalsociety.org. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." –"Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies". Archived from the original on 25 September 2015. Retrieved 9 March 2016.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ 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. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
- ^ a b David J. Thouless at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ a b c d Anon (2016). "BBC Radio 4 profile: Professor David J Thouless". London: BBC.
- S2CID 247191023.
- ^ a b "Thouless, Prof. David James". Who's Who. Vol. 2016 (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ a b "Professor David Thouless 1934–2019". Trinity Hall, Cambridge. 6 April 2019. Retrieved 8 April 2019.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i "David J. Thouless Facts". Nobel Prize.org. Retrieved 13 October 2020.
- ^ "Physicist Thouless to give two talks at Lab". Archived from the original on 15 October 2006. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link), Los Alamos National Laboratory - ISBN 9780946653706– via Google Books.
- ^ Sturrock, Laura (5 October 2016). "Bearsden scientist is awarded Nobel prize in Physics". Kirkintilloch Herald. Retrieved 6 October 2016.
- ^ David Thouless, 84, Dies; Nobel Laureate Cast Light on Matter New York Times, 2019-04-22.
- OCLC 745509629.
- ISBN 9789814329880– via Google Books.
- ^ "UW Professor Emeritus David J. Thouless wins Nobel Prize in physics for exploring exotic states of matter | UW Today". www.washington.edu. Retrieved 7 April 2017.
- ^ a b "David Thouless". aip.org. Archived from the original on 5 October 2016. Retrieved 10 October 2016.
- ^ a b "Two former Birmingham scientists awarded Nobel Prize for Physics". University of Birmingham. 4 October 2016. Retrieved 4 October 2016.
- S2CID 206668153.
- ^ a b "The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016". NobelPrize.org.
- ^ PMID 27708331.
- ^ David J. Thouless publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
- ^ "David Thouless". National Academy of Sciences Online. Archived from the original on 10 October 2016. Retrieved 9 October 2016.
- ^ David J. Thouless Winner of Wolf Prize in Physics – 1990 Archived 5 October 2016 at the Wayback 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. Retrieved 24 September 2017.
External links
- Media related to David Thouless at Wikimedia Commons
- David J. Thouless on Nobelprize.org