David J. Thouless

Awards

1. 1990

   Wolf Prize — Physics

   Physics

   for a wide variety of pioneering contributions to our understanding of the organization of complex condensed matter systems, de Gennes especially for his work on macromolecular matter and liquid crystals and Thouless for his on disordered and low-dimensional systems.

2. 2016

   Nobel Prize — Physics

   Physics

   for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter