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Robert B. Laughlin

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American physicist

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Robert Betts Laughlin is an American physicist. He 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.

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Robert B. Laughlin
said · 2013
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When a thing gets very, very small, you can't tell the difference between a solid and a liquid. (16:30 in video)

A Different Universe - Bob Laughlin (SETI Talks) - YouTube, 2013

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Robert B. Laughlin
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If you think, as a Western person, that you are not affected by religious traditions, you are sadly mistaken. (22:30 in video)

A Different Universe - Bob Laughlin (SETI Talks) - YouTube, 2013

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Robert B. Laughlin
said · 2013
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What we live in, unfortunately, is a time when we are infected by what I call quantum field theory idolatry. (39:30 in video)

A Different Universe - Bob Laughlin (SETI Talks) - YouTube, 2013

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Awards 6

1998Nobel Prize in Physics
1998Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics
1986Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize
1984Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award
Onsager Medal
Fellow of the American Physical Society

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Robert Betts Laughlin is an American physicist. He 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.

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Born 1950 · age 75
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