Robert B.
Laughlin
Year
1998
Subject
Physics
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Stanford University | Stanford, CA
Citation
For formulation of the fractional Hall effect.
Robert B. Laughlin did undergraduate and masters-level work at the University of California at Berkeley, and received his Ph.D. from M.I.T. in 1979. Formerly at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, he is currently a professor at Stanford University.
Information as of 1998