
Robert B. Laughlin
- Prize
- Nobel Prize in Physics — 1998for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations
- Citizenship
United States
- Languages
- English
- date of birth
- 11/1/1950
- place of birth
- Visalia
- Age
- 75 years
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- occupation
- non-fiction writer
- university teacher
- physicist
- field of work
- physics
- educated at
- University of California, Berkeley
- academic degree: Bachelor of Arts
- academic major: mathematics
- end time: 1972
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- academic degree: Doctor of Philosophy
- academic major: physics
- end time: 1979
- Redwood High School
- University of California, Berkeley
- employer
- Bell Labs
- Stanford University
- Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- work location
- Stanford
- member of
- National Academy of Sciences
- American Association for the Advancement of Science
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences
- American Physical Society
- doctoral student
- Deborah Berebichez
- notable work
- Effet Hall quantique