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Nov 01, 1950 Visalia, California, United States 73 years old
American physicist
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About Robert B. Laughlin
- Robert Betts Laughlin (born November 1, 1950) 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. In 1983, 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 experiments.
- This state has since been interpreted as the integer quantum Hall effect of the composite fermion.
