The Nobel Prize in Physics 1998
Awarded on: 1998-10-13
"for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations"
Affiliations:
- Stanford University – Stanford, CA, USA
Robert B. Laughlin
Born: 1950-11-01 in Visalia, CA, USA
Gender: male
Field: American physicist
Biography
Robert Betts Laughlin 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.