David J. Thouless Age, Biography, Facts & More

Bio
Real Name	David James Thouless
Nickname	Not Known
Profession	Physicist
Fields	Condensed Matter Theory
Doctoral Advisor	Hans Bethe
Awards/Achievements	• In 1973, awarded with the Maxwell Medal & Prize. • In 1990, awarded with the Wolf Prize. • In 1993, awarded with the Paul Dirac Medal of the Institute of Physics. • In 2000, awarded with the Lars Onsager Prize. • In 2016, awarded with the Nobel Prize in Physics.
Physical Stats & More
Eye Colour	Brown
Hair Colour	White
Personal Life
Date of Birth	21 September 1934
Age (as in 2017)	83 Years
Birth Place	Bearsden, Scotland
Zodiac sign/Sun sign	Virgo
Nationality	Scottish, American
Hometown	Bearsden, Scotland, UK
School	Winchester College, England
College/University	Trinity Hall, Cambridge, UK Cornell University, New York, USA
Educational Qualifications	PhD from Cornwell University, New York
Religion	Not Known
Ethnicity	British

Some Lesser Known Facts About David J. Thouless

He received his PhD from Cornell University in the year 1950; working on nuclear matter under the guidance of Hans Bethe.

Thouless was a Professor of Mathematical Physics at Birmingham University from 1965 to 1978, where he also worked on electron localization and the spin glass.

He then became a professor of Physics at the University of Washington in Seattle in 1980.

Thouless has contributed vastly to condensed matter theory, especially vortices in superfluids, the quantum Hall effect, and topological quantum numbers. His work further includes the superconductivity phenomena, properties of nuclear matter, and excited collective motions within nuclei.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society, American Physical Society, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences.

In 2016, Thouless along with two other scientists was awarded the Nobel prize in Physics for revealing the secrets of exotic mattter. Notably, Thouless gets half the prize money, amounting to $4,65,000.