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Robert B. Laughlin is a Stanford professor and a Nobel laureate in physics for his explanation of the fractional quantum Hall effect. He is also an author of books on physics, emergence, and energy, and a former president of KAIST in South Korea.
Robert Laughlin is a Nobel laureate in physics and a theorist with diverse interests in engineering, plasma, nuclear, and cosmology. He is currently working on correlated-electron phenomena and emergent law in materials science.
Learn about the life and achievements of Robert B. Laughlin, who won the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on fractional quantum Hall effect. Read his autobiography, from his childhood in Visalia, California, to his research at Stanford University.
Professor Laughlin is a theorist with interests ranging from hard-core engineering to cosmology. He is an expert in semiconductors (Nobel Prize 1998) and has also worked on plasma and nuclear physics issues related to fusion and nuclear-pumped X-ray lasers.
Learn about Robert B. Laughlin, who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1998 for his work on the fractional quantum Hall effect. Find out his biography, education, research, and achievements in this article from Britannica.
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Robert B. Laughlin is an American physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1998 for his discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations. Learn more about his work, the Hall effect, and the Nobel Prize Outreach program.
Photographs and news articles pertaining to Prof. Laughlin's Nobel Prize for Physics in 1998. Powering the Future. Popular book on the future of energy. (Basic Books, New York, 2011) The Crime of Reason. Popular book on sequestration of knowledge.
