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Robert B. Laughlin

1950 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert B. Laughlin is the 339th most popular physicist (down from 318th in 2019), the 1,952nd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,608th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular American Physicist.

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Among physicists, Robert B. Laughlin ranks 339 out of 851. Before him are Leopold Infeld, Giovanni Battista Amici, Carl Wieman, Jan Ingenhousz, John B. Goodenough, and Fritjof Capra. After him are Thomas Johann Seebeck, Bruno Pontecorvo, Stephen Hales, Giorgio Parisi, Joseph Swan, and Jean Léonard Marie Poiseuille.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Robert B. Laughlin ranks 80. Before him are Brad Dourif, Chen Shui-bian, Sudha Murty, Jerry Zucker, Linda Thompson, and Nora Roberts. After him are Ken Robinson, Karen Carpenter, Paul Watson, David Graf, Assef Shawkat, and Yumi Umeoka.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert B. Laughlin ranks 1,952 out of 20,380. Before him are Frederick Cook (1865), Juliet Anderson (1938), Barbara Bach (1947), Mario Lanza (1921), Kenneth Waltz (1924), and Christopher C. Kraft Jr. (1924). After him are Grover Washington Jr. (1943), Ted Danson (1947), Jeffrey C. Hall (1945), William Westmoreland (1914), Martha Gellhorn (1908), and James Foley (1953).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Robert B. Laughlin ranks 73. Before him are Harry Daghlian (1921), Samuel C. C. Ting (1936), Henry Way Kendall (1926), John Vincent Atanasoff (1903), Steven Chu (1948), and Carl Wieman (1951). After him are John G. Trump (1907), Theodore Lyman IV (1874), Frank Wilczek (1951), Nathan Rosen (1909), Karl Guthe Jansky (1905), and Edward Witten (1951).

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