David James Thouless 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. The Nobel Prize in Physics 2016, announced October 4, 2016. David J. Thouless, F. Duncan M. Haldane, and J. Michael Kosterlitz, “for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter”. David J. Thouless: born 1934, Bearsden, United Kingdom. F. Duncan M. Haldane: born 1951, London, United Kingdom. J. Michael Kosterlitz: born 1943, Aberdeen, United Kingdom. Wiki link Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).