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It is an interesting fact that during my tour I was never allowed access to computers, radios, or an...

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Over the course of time this gave us a deep respect for ideas, both our own and those of others, and...

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A person obsessed with ultimate truth is a person asking to be relieved of money.

It was at this moment that I wrote my first important paper in theoretical physics. I was 32 years o...

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Robert B. Laughlin

Professor

Born: 1950-11-01

Died: N/A

Robert Betts Laughlin (born November 1, 1950) is a 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 the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics for his explanation of the fractional quantum Hall effect.More