Awards & Winners

Robert B. Laughlin

Date of Birth 01-November-1950
Place of Birth Visalia
(Tulare County, California, United States of America, Central California, Area code 559)
Nationality United States of America
Also know as Robert Laughlin
Profession Scientist, Professor, Physicist
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. Laughlin was born in Visalia, California. He earned a B.A. in Mathematics from UC Berkeley in 1972, and his Ph.D. in physics in 1979 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. Between 2004 and 2006 he served as the president of KAIST in Daejeon, South Korea. Laughlin shares similar views to George Chapline, doubting the existence of black holes.

Awards by Robert B. Laughlin

Check all the awards nominated and won by Robert B. Laughlin.

1998


Nobel Prize in Physics
(for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations)