Robert Betts Laughlin 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. The Nobel Prize in Physics 1998, announced October 13, 1998. Robert B. Laughlin, Horst L. Störmer, and Daniel C. Tsui, “for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations”. Robert B. Laughlin: born 1950, Visalia, CA, USA. Horst L. Störmer: born 1949, Frankfurt-on-the-Main, West Germany (now Germany). Daniel C. Tsui: born 1939, Henan, China. Wiki link Wiki link Wiki link Data: the Nobel Foundation (CC0).