Thouless’s research greatly impacted which type of material science?
Plastics
Metals
Superconductors
Semiconductors
Answer
Semiconductors, materials whose electrical conductivity is intermediate between that of conductors and insulators, are the foundation of modern electronics. Thouless's research on the quantum Hall effect, which earned him the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1998, greatly impacted the field of semiconductor physics.
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