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Robert B. Laughlin

1950 - Today

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Robert Betts Laughlin (born November 1, 1950) 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert B. Laughlin has received more than 218,491 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Robert B. Laughlin is the 317th most popular physicist (up from 357th in 2019), the 1,608th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,344th in 2019) and the 64th most popular American Physicist.

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  • 3.88

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Robert B. Laughlin ranks 317 out of 851. Before him are James Jeans, Vagn Walfrid Ekman, John Robert Schrieffer, Jan Ingenhousz, Ludwig Prandtl, and Fritjof Capra. After him are Ernst Chladni, William Whewell, John C. Mather, Kenneth G. Wilson, Henri Pitot, and Samuel C. C. Ting.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Robert B. Laughlin ranks 72. Before him are Chantal Akerman, Chen Shui-bian, Helen Clark, Grigory Sokolov, Brad Dourif, and Miki Manojlović. After him are Sônia Braga, Tsui Hark, Corinne Cléry, Miou-Miou, Neda Ukraden, and Marcheline Bertrand.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert B. Laughlin ranks 1,608 out of 20,380. Before him are Steve Ditko (1927), Karen Grassle (1942), Barbara Hershey (1948), Edgar Mitchell (1930), Bill Haley (1925), and James McKeen Cattell (1860). After him are Dudley R. Herschbach (1932), John D. Rockefeller Jr. (1874), Baruch Samuel Blumberg (1925), Joseph Nye (1937), Frank Drake (1930), and Sidney Bechet (1897).

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Among PHYSICISTS In United States

Among physicists born in United States, Robert B. Laughlin ranks 64. Before him are Hugh David Politzer (1949), Steven Chu (1948), George Smoot (1945), William Daniel Phillips (1948), David Gross (1941), and John Robert Schrieffer (1931). After him are John C. Mather (1946), Kenneth G. Wilson (1936), Samuel C. C. Ting (1936), Luis Walter Alvarez (1911), Frank Wilczek (1951), and Frank Oppenheimer (1912).

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