December 10, 1998

Daniel Tsui Receives the Nobel Prize in Physics

Daniel C. Tsui, a Chinese American physicist at Princeton, shared the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics for the discovery of the fractional quantum Hall effect, presented at the December 10 ceremony in Stockholm.

Sources

nobelprize.org nobelprize.org/prizes/physics/1998/summary/
pr.princeton.edu pr.princeton.edu/pwb/98/1019/tsui.htm

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