American physicist
"Robert Laughlin" redirects here. For the anthropologist and linguist, see
Robert M. Laughlin .
Robert Betts Laughlin (born November 1, 1950) is an American physicist. He is the Anne T. andRobert M. Bass Professor ofPhysics andApplied Physics atStanford University .[ 1] Horst L. Störmer ofColumbia University andDaniel C. Tsui ofPrinceton University , he was awarded a share of the 1998Nobel Prize inphysics for their explanation of thefractional quantum Hall effect .
In 1983, Laughlin was first to provide amany body wave function , now known as theLaughlin wavefunction ,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 thecomposite fermion .[ 2]
His 2017 paper, "Pumped thermal grid storage with heat exchange"[ 3] Google X and subsequently Malta inc.[ 4]
Laughlin was born inVisalia, California . He earned aB.A. inmathematics at theUniversity of California, Berkeley in 1972, and hisPh.D. in physics in 1979 at theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Between 2004 and 2006,[ 5] KAIST inDaejeon ,South Korea .
Laughlin (right) in the White House together with other 1998 US Nobel Prize Winners and the PresidentBill Clinton Laughlin published a book entitledA Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down emergence as a replacement forreductionism , in addition to general commentary on hot-topic issues.
Laughlin, Robert B. (2005).A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down ISBN 978-0-465-03828-2 Un universo diferente. La reinvención de la física en la Edad de la Emergencia , Buenos Aires/Madrid, Katz editores, 2007,ISBN 978-84-935432-9-7 Laughlin, Robert B. (2008).The Crime of Reason: And the Closing of the Scientific Mind . Basic Books.ISBN 978-0-465-00507-9 Crímenes de la razón. El fin de la mentalidad científica , Buenos Aires/Madrid, Katz editores, 2010,ISBN 978-84-96859-68-5 Mente y materia. ¿Qué es la vida? Sobre la vigencia de Erwin Schrödinger (with Michael R. Hendrickson; Robert Pogue Harrison andHans Ulrich Gumbrecht ), Buenos Aires/Madrid, Katz editores, 2010,ISBN 978-84-92946-12-9 Laughlin, Robert B. (2013).Powering the Future: How We Will (Eventually) Solve the Energy Crisis and Fuel the Civilization of Tomorrow . Basic Books.ISBN 9780465022205 [ 7]
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