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David Thouless
Professor David Thouless FRS
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Elected: 1979
Biography
David Thouless made many important contributions to the theory of many-body problems. For nuclei, he cleared up the concept of ‘rearrangement energy’ and derived an expression for the moment of inertia of deformed nuclei. In statistical mechanics, he contributed many ideas to the understanding of ordering, including the concept of ‘topological ordering’. Other important results relate to localised electron states in disordered lattices.
Professor David Thouless FRS died on 6 April 2019.
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