Daniel C.
Tsui
Year
1998
Subject
Physics
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Princeton University | Princeton, NJ
Citation
To Tsui and Stormer for their experimental elucidation of the fractional quantum Hall effect, an extraordinary manifestation of the correlations in two-dimensional electronic systems, and to Laughlin for his creative theoretical formulation of the fractional quantum Hall effect, which identified a completely new quantum state of the highly correlated two-dimensional electron gas in magnetic field.
Daniel Tsui received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago in 1967. He joined the technical staff of Bell Labs in 1968, where he worked with Horst Stormer until 1982. Since then he has been in the electrical engineering department at Princeton University. He is a member of the National Academy of Science and a Fellow of the American Physical Society.
Information as of 1998