Robert B. Laughlin
| Robert Betts Laughlin | |
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| Born |
November 1, 1950 Visalia, California, United States |
| Nationality | United States |
| Fields | Theoretical physics |
| Institutions | Stanford |
| Alma mater |
MIT University of California, Berkeley |
| Doctoral advisor | John D. Joannopoulos |
| Known for | Quantum Hall effect |
| Notable awards |
E. O. Lawrence Award (1984) Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1986) Nobel Prize in physics (1998) The Franklin Medal (1998) |
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.
Laughlin was born in Visalia, California. He earned a B.A. in mathematics at UC Berkeley in 1972, and his Ph.D. in physics in 1979 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, Massachusetts. Between 2004 and 2006 he served as the president of KAIST in Daejeon, South Korea.
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 to be a Bose–Einstein condensate.
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