Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics — for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations.
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Robert B. Laughlin
Robert Betts Laughlin is an American physicist. He is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University. Along with Horst L. Störmer of Columbia University and Daniel C. Tsui of Princeton University, he was awarded a share of the 1998 Nobel Prize in physics for their explanation of the fractional quantum Hall effect.
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Born 1 November 1950 · Q189997
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1998· 4 entries
Won Benjamin Franklin Medal (1998).
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Won Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics (1998).
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics (1998).
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1986· 1 entry
Awarded Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1986).
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award (1984).
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1983· 1 entry
Laughlin was first to provide a many body wave function, now known as the Laughlin wavefunction, for the fractional quantum Hall effect, which was able to correctly explain the fractionalized charge observed in experimen
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1979· 2 entries
Studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Doctor of Philosophy (1979).
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At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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1972· 1 entry
Studied at University of California, Berkeley, Bachelor of Arts (1972).
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1950· 1 entry
Born 1950-11-01.
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