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Robert B. Laughlin

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Robert B. Laughlin

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Also known as Robert Laughlin, Robert Betts Laughlin

American physicist

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Robert B. Laughlin is an American physicist, university teacher, and non-fiction writer. Born in Visalia in 1950, he was educated at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of California, Berkeley. His professional affiliations have included Stanford University, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, and Bell Labs. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Physical Society.

Laughlin has received the Nobel Prize in Physics, the Benjamin Franklin Medal, the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize, and the Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award. He has authored ten works, including titles such as *Crímenes de la razón* and *Mente y materia. ¿Qué es la vida?*. His doctoral student was Deborah Berebichez.

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Person · Open Library

Works
10

Top works

  • 한국인, 다음영웅을기다려라
  • Mente y materia. ¿Qué es la vida?
  • Crímenes de la razón
  • Crímenes de la razón
  • Crímenes de la razón

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Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
United States
Active from
1950
Official site

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
25
Total plays
29

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. Development of the Colle-Salvetti correlation-energy formula into a functional of the electron density

    · 1988 · cited 95,788x

  2. Hallmarks of Cancer: The Next Generation

    · 2011 · cited 56,560x

  3. Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support

    · 2009 · cited 46,839x

  4. Regression Shrinkage and Selection Via the Lasso

    · 1996 · cited 39,802x

  5. The PHQ-9

    · 2001 · cited 39,510x

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Quotes

  • “The reminds me of the scene in Mel Brooks's where asks his hunch-backed servant, , how he lives with his hump, and Igor answers, "What hump?" ... The potential of overcoming the ultraviolet problem is also the deeper reason for the allure of string theory, a microscopic model for the vacuum that has failed to account for any measured thing.”
  • “The reason we believe in relativity today is not because we had a great transition in our beliefs about what should be so. We believe in relativity because we have no choice. It's true — measured to be true.”
  • “I like to talk about renormalization as an epistemological barrier. … Nature has been kind, and nature has been unkind. … for what it's worth, I don't tell people what kind of research to do. I have been wrong many, many times in anticipating what will happen. … I’ve learned the hard way that the art of good physics is to ask a question that’s just barely beyond where the technology can go, and then you place your bets. And if you’re right you win the bet, and if you’re wrong you lose.”
  • “Real understanding of a thing comes from taking it apart oneself, not reading about it in a book or hearing about it in a classroom. To this day I always insist on working out a problem from the beginning without reading up on it first, a habit that sometimes gets me into trouble but just as often helps me see things my predecessors have missed.”
  • “I realized that nature is filled with a limitless number of wonderful things which have causes and reasons like anything else but nonetheless cannot be forseen but must be discovered, for their subtlety and complexity transcends the present state of science. The questions worth asking, in other words, come not from other people but from nature, and are for the most part delicate things easily drowned out by the noise of everyday life.”
  • “The world is full of intelligent, well-meaning people who, for one reason or another, did not attend university but are nonetheless well-read and educated. Out there on the prairie lost opportunities of youth were the rule rather than the exception, and I slowly became disabused of the myth of the Bright Young Thing and have not believed in it since.”

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Nobel Prize

  • The Nobel Prize in Physics1998

    “for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations”

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Encyclopedic overview

Robert Betts Laughlin (born November 1, 1950) 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.

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.

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