
David J. Thouless
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David James Thouless (; 21 September 1934 – 6 April 2019) 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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David Thouless, Nobel-winning physicist who explored strange states of matter, dies at 84
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David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz win 2016 Nobel Prize for Physics
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Nobel Prize in Physics Awarded to David Thouless, Duncan Haldane and Michael Kosterlitz