The Nobel Prize in Physics 1998
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Robert B. Laughlin
Prize share: 1/3
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.
Horst L. Störmer
Prize share: 1/3
Photo from the Nobel Foundation archive.
Daniel C. Tsui
Prize share: 1/3
The Nobel Prize in Physics 1998 was awarded jointly to Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer and Daniel C. Tsui "for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations"
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