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Tsui, tsoo ee, Daniel Chee (1939-...), a Chinese-born American physicist, shared the 1998 Nobel Prize for physics with Robert Laughlin of the United States and Horst Stormer of Germany for their discovery of a new form of matter in which it seemed that electrons--the particles making up electric currents--had been divided into parts. Tsui made the discovery with Stormer and Laughlin explained the results of their experiments.
Phillips, William Daniel (1948-...), an American physicist, shared the 1997 Nobel Prize for physics with fellow American Steven Chu and a French… More>>
Richter, Burton (1931-...), an American physicist, was the joint winner, with American physicist Samuel Chao Chung Ting, of the Nobel Prize in… More>>
Gross, David Jonathan (1941-...), an American physicist, won a share of the 2004 Nobel Prize in physics for his research into the force that binds… More>>
Hofstadter, Robert (1915-1990), an American physicist, was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in 1961 for his studies of nucleons, the particles… More>>
Steinberger, Jack (1921-...), is a German-born American physicist who made a career of studying the reactions of subatomic particles. In 1960,… More>>
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