[11] David Thouless was educated at St Faith's School then Winchester College and earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge as an undergraduate student of Trinity Hall, Cambridge.

[16] Thouless made many theoretical contributions to the understanding of extended systems of atoms and electrons, and of nucleons.

[18][19][7] He also worked on superconductivity phenomena, properties of nuclear matter, and excited collective motions within nuclei.

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