Robert B. Laughlin

Robert B. Laughlin

Nobel Prize in Physics 1998

Stanford University

“for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations”

Robert B. Laughlin is an American physicist. He shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1998 for the discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations. He was affiliated with Stanford University in the USA when awarded.

Field
Physics · Condensed Matter Physics
Lifespan
1950–