The award of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics to Robert B Laughlin acknowledged explaining the fractional quantum Hall effect. He described collective quantum states that carry excitations with fractional electric charge.
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Robert B Laughlin
Nobel Prize history for Robert B Laughlin based on the award records stored in the World History Database.
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