罗伯特·劳夫林1950—

生平

1950年出生于加利福尼亚州维塞利亚，1972年毕业于加州大学伯克利分校，1979年毕业于麻省理工学院博士学位，1998年获诺贝尔物理学奖。以研究量子霍尔效应而闻名。

Robert Betts Laughlin (born November 1, 1950) is an American physicist. He 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. This state has since been interpreted as the integer quantum Hall effect of the composite fermion.

His 2017 paper, "Pumped thermal grid storage with heat exchange" inspired Project Malta at Google X and subsequently Malta inc.

Biography

Laughlin was born in Visalia, California. He earned a B.A. in mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley in 1972, and his Ph.D. in physics in 1979 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Between 2004 and 2006, he served as the president of KAIST in Daejeon, South Korea.

Honors and awards

• E. O. Lawrence Award in Physics – 1984
• Oliver E. Buckley Prize – 1986
• Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society - 1986
• National Academy of Sciences – 1994
• Benjamin Franklin Medal for Physics of the Franklin Institute – 1998
• Nobel Prize in Physics – 1998
• Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement – 1999
• Doctorate of Letters, University of Maryland – 2005
• Onsager Medal – 2007