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Swedish 13 oktober 1998 har utdelat 1998 års Nobelpris i fysik gemensamt till Professor Robert B. Laughlin, Stanford University, Kalifornien, USA, Professor Horst L. Störmer, Columbia University, New York, och Lucent Technologies’ Bell Labs, New Jersey, USA, och Professor Daniel C. Tsui, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA. De tre forskarna Nobelprisbelönas för att ha upptäckt…

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I was born on 1 November, 1950 in Visalia, California, a medium-sized town just south of Fresno in the San Joaquin Valley. It was at that time an agricultural community more like the Middle West or West Texas than Hollywood or Beverly Hills. The main highway into town was lined with magnificent walnut orchards and…

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Professor Robert B. Laughlin, Professor Horst L. Störmer and Professor Daniel C. Tsui for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations.   Photo: Brigitta Hanggi, Lucent Technologies Professor Daniel C. Tsui Princeton University…

I was born on April 6, 1949 in a regional hospital in Frankfurt am Main in Germany. Having the umbilical cord wrapped twice tightly around my neck, my parents’ fear for the mental health of their first-born son subsided only gradually. My forefathers had been farmers, inn-keepers, blacksmiths, carpenters and shop keepers in the region.…

English 13 October 1998 has awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly to Professor Robert B. Laughlin, Stanford University, California, USA, Professor Horst L. Störmer, Columbia University, New York and Lucent Technologies’ Bell Labs, New Jersey, USA, and Professor Daniel C. Tsui, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA. The three researchers are being awarded…

  For more than 150 years we have used electrons for practical purposes. Yet they were only discovered in 1897. Early models described electrons in a metal as a gas. In 1956 the Russian physicist (Nobel Prize 1962) explained why electrons in a metal behave like nearly independent particles. Landau provided a model which can…