Nobel Prize in Physics 1998

Robert B. Laughlin

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Prize share: 1/3

Horst L. Störmer

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Prize share: 1/3

Daniel C. Tsui

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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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