1934 - 2019
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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David J. Thouless has received more than 390,869 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). David J. Thouless is the 238th most popular physicist (down from 226th in 2019), the 750th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 724th in 2019) and the 30th most popular British Physicist.
David Thouless is most famous for his work in the field of condensed matter physics. He is a professor at the University of Washington and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2016.
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Among physicists, David J. Thouless ranks 238 out of 717. Before him are Allan MacLeod Cormack, Jim Peebles, Abdus Salam, Burton Richter, Sheldon Lee Glashow, and Claude-Louis Navier. After him are Ettore Majorana, Jagadish Chandra Bose, Johannes Rydberg, David Bohm, Klaus Hasselmann, and Julian Schwinger.
1924 - 1998
HPI: 61.71
Rank: 232
1935 - Present
HPI: 61.69
Rank: 233
1926 - 1996
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 234
1931 - 2018
HPI: 61.65
Rank: 235
1932 - Present
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 236
1785 - 1836
HPI: 61.58
Rank: 237
1934 - 2019
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 238
1906 - 1959
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 239
1858 - 1937
HPI: 61.40
Rank: 240
1854 - 1919
HPI: 61.39
Rank: 241
1992 - 1992
HPI: 61.36
Rank: 242
1931 - Present
HPI: 61.23
Rank: 243
1918 - 1994
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 244
Among people born in 1934, David J. Thouless ranks 57. Before him are Jan Švankmajer, Bengt I. Samuelsson, Alfred Schnittke, Stanislav Shushkevich, Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler, and Eduard Khil. After him are Marshall Rosenberg, Fujiko Fujio, Giovanni Battista Re, Bettino Craxi, Brian Epstein, and Tassos Papadopoulos. Among people deceased in 2019, David J. Thouless ranks 48. Before him are Franco Columbu, Ratko Janev, Giya Kancheli, Claudine Auger, Henri, Count of Paris, and Demetris Christofias. After him are Lennart Johansson, Yasuhiro Nakasone, Lee Iacocca, Sydney Brenner, César Pelli, and Ágnes Heller.
1934 - Present
HPI: 62.07
Rank: 51
1934 - Present
HPI: 61.99
Rank: 52
1934 - 1998
HPI: 61.98
Rank: 53
1934 - 2022
HPI: 61.93
Rank: 54
1934 - Present
HPI: 61.82
Rank: 55
1934 - 2012
HPI: 61.79
Rank: 56
1934 - 2019
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 57
1934 - 2015
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 58
1934 - Present
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 59
1934 - Present
HPI: 61.16
Rank: 60
1934 - 2000
HPI: 61.14
Rank: 61
1934 - 1967
HPI: 60.84
Rank: 62
1934 - 2008
HPI: 60.58
Rank: 63
1941 - 2019
HPI: 62.18
Rank: 42
1939 - 2019
HPI: 62.13
Rank: 43
1935 - 2019
HPI: 62.04
Rank: 44
1941 - 2019
HPI: 62.02
Rank: 45
1933 - 2019
HPI: 62.01
Rank: 46
1946 - 2019
HPI: 61.89
Rank: 47
1934 - 2019
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 48
1929 - 2019
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 49
1918 - 2019
HPI: 61.41
Rank: 50
1924 - 2019
HPI: 61.10
Rank: 51
1927 - 2019
HPI: 60.99
Rank: 52
1926 - 2019
HPI: 60.97
Rank: 53
1929 - 2019
HPI: 60.83
Rank: 54
Among people born in United Kingdom, David J. Thouless ranks 750 out of 7,765. Before him are Bruce Chatwin (1940), Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443), Edmund Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond (1430), James Joseph Sylvester (1814), Chris Rea (1951), and Ben Jonson (1572). After him are John Frederic Daniell (1790), Boris Karloff (1887), Lewis Hamilton (1985), Alfred Radcliffe-Brown (1881), John Balliol (1249), and Terence Stamp (1938).
1940 - 1989
HPI: 61.64
Rank: 744
1443 - 1509
HPI: 61.63
Rank: 745
1430 - 1456
HPI: 61.62
Rank: 746
1814 - 1897
HPI: 61.58
Rank: 747
1951 - Present
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 748
1572 - 1637
HPI: 61.56
Rank: 749
1934 - 2019
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 750
1790 - 1845
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 751
1887 - 1969
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 752
1985 - Present
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 753
1881 - 1955
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 754
1249 - 1314
HPI: 61.51
Rank: 755
1938 - Present
HPI: 61.49
Rank: 756
Among physicists born in United Kingdom, David J. Thouless ranks 30. Before him are William Shockley (1910), David Brewster (1781), Charles Wheatstone (1802), Andrew Huxley (1917), John Kendrew (1917), and Nevill Francis Mott (1905). After him are Daniel Rutherford (1749), Osborne Reynolds (1842), Anthony James Leggett (1938), John Cockcroft (1897), Joseph Swan (1828), and Patrick Blackett (1897).
1910 - 1989
HPI: 65.24
Rank: 24
1781 - 1868
HPI: 62.17
Rank: 25
1802 - 1875
HPI: 62.04
Rank: 26
1917 - 2012
HPI: 61.98
Rank: 27
1917 - 1997
HPI: 61.96
Rank: 28
1905 - 1996
HPI: 61.85
Rank: 29
1934 - 2019
HPI: 61.52
Rank: 30
1749 - 1819
HPI: 60.64
Rank: 31
1842 - 1912
HPI: 60.62
Rank: 32
1938 - Present
HPI: 60.53
Rank: 33
1897 - 1967
HPI: 60.51
Rank: 34
1828 - 1914
HPI: 60.25
Rank: 35
1897 - 1974
HPI: 60.15
Rank: 36