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David J. Thouless

1934 - 2019

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David J. Thouless has received more than 403,442 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). David J. Thouless is the 210th most popular physicist (up from 238th in 2019), the 556th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 750th in 2019) and the 23rd 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

Among physicists, David J. Thouless ranks 210 out of 851. Before him are Mihajlo Pupin, Alain Aspect, Arthur Leonard Schawlow, Robert Hofstadter, Richard E. Taylor, and James Cronin. After him are David Lee, Arthur Ashkin, Yoichiro Nambu, Abdus Salam, Jerome Isaac Friedman, and Leon Cooper.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, David J. Thouless ranks 46. Before him are Princess Margaretha, Mrs. Ambler, Alan Arkin, Otar Iosseliani, Tarcisio Bertone, Jacques Anquetil, and Bill Russell. After him are Jonas Savimbi, John L. Hall, Georges Moustaki, Brian Epstein, Wole Soyinka, and Louise Fletcher. Among people deceased in 2019, David J. Thouless ranks 37. Before him are Bibi Andersson, Doris Day, Albert Finney, Andrea Camilleri, B. J. Habibie, and Manfred Eigen. After him are Claudine Auger, Murray Gell-Mann, Tony Buzan, Jean, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Giya Kancheli, and Lennart Johansson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, David J. Thouless ranks 556 out of 8,785. Before him are Geoffrey of Monmouth (1090), Jane Seymour (1951), Thomas Cranmer (1489), Christian Bale (1974), David II of Scotland (1324), and Sir Arthur Harris, 1st Baronet (1892). After him are Benjamin Graham (1894), Philip Miller (1691), Thomas Wolsey (1473), Bill Nighy (1949), Hugh Laurie (1959), and James Parkinson (1755).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United Kingdom

Among physicists born in United Kingdom, David J. Thouless ranks 23. Before him are Owen Willans Richardson (1879), Edward Victor Appleton (1892), John William Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh (1842), Roger Penrose (1931), William Henry Bragg (1862), and Henry Moseley (1887). After him are William Shockley (1910), John Kendrew (1917), Patrick Blackett (1897), Brian Josephson (1940), Charles Wheatstone (1802), and David Brewster (1781).

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