doctoral_advisor birth_place awards image_size nationality fields workplaces birth_date known_for image article_title name alma_mater
john d. joannopoulos visalia , california , united states e. buckley condensed matter prize -lrb- 1986 -rrb- nobel prize in o. physics -lrb- 1998 -rrb- the franklin medal -lrb- 1998 -rrb- lawrence award -lrb- 1984 -rrb- oliver e. 180px united states theoretical physics stanford 1 november 1950 quantum hall effect robert laughlin , stanford university.jpg robert b. laughlin
 robert betts laughlin mit university of california , berkeley
robert b. laughlin

robert betts laughlin -lrb- born november 1 , 1950 -rrb- 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 .
laughlin was born in visalia , california .
he earned a b.a. in mathematics from uc berkeley in 1972 , and his ph.d. in physics in 1979 at the massachusetts institute of technology -lrb- mit -rrb- , cambridge , massachusetts , usa .
between 2004 and 2006 he served as the president of kaist in daejeon , south korea .
laughlin shares similar views to george chapline , doubting the existence of black holes .
