Robert B. Laughlin Visalia, California, United States, 1950
He studied physics at the University of California at Berkeley, where he graduated in 1972, and earned his doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979 Currently he is professor of the chair Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Bass of Physics Stanford University, where he has taught since 1985 in 1998 received the Nobel Prize in Physics together with other scientists for their research work on the fractional quantum Hall effect. Also obtained the Oliver E. Buckley Prize, the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics Ernest O. Lawrence and Physics Prize awarded by the Ministry of Energy of the United States. In his work as a theoretical physicist, Laughlin relates as diverse as protein folding and superconductivity high temperature areas.