Daniel C. Tsui
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Daniel C. Tsui
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| Native name | 崔琦 |
| Born |
February 28, 1939 Fan village, Henan, China |
| Residence | New Jersey, United States |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields |
Experimental physics Electrical engineering |
| Institutions |
Princeton University Bell Laboratories Columbia University Boston University |
| Alma mater |
University of Chicago (PhD) Augustana College (BSc) |
| Known for | Fractional quantum Hall effect |
| Notable awards |
Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1984) Nobel Prize in Physics (1998) |
Daniel Chee Tsui (Chinese: 崔琦; pinyin: Cuī Qí, born February 28, 1939, Henan Province, China) is a Chinese-born American physicist whose areas of research included electrical properties of thin films and microstructures of semiconductors and solid-state physics. He was previously the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University and adjunct senior research scientist in the Department of Physics at Columbia University, where he was a visiting professor from 2006 to 2008. Currently, he is a research professor at Boston University. In 1998, along with Horst L. Störmer of Columbia and Robert Laughlin of Stanford, Tsui was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to the discovery of the fractional quantum Hall effect.
Tsui was born in Fan village (范庄), about 7.5 kilometres (4.7 mi) from Baofeng, Henan Province, and his parents were both farmers. When he was born, China was in the midst of wars. He studied Chinese classics in a school in the village.
Tsui left for Hong Kong in 1951, and attended Pui Ching Middle School in Kowloon, where he graduated in 1957. He was admitted to the National Taiwan University Medical School in Taipei, Taiwan. Tsui was given a full scholarship to the Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, United States, which is his church pastor's Lutheran alma mater.
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