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	Robert B. Laughlin - Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
		Robert Laughlin was born November 1, 1950, in Visalia, California, then a rural/agricultural community.
		Laughlin entered the University of California at Berkeley to major in electrical engineering, but changed his major and received an AB in mathematics in 1972.
		Laughlin was accepted to graduate school at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1974 and received his Ph.D. in 1979.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/biographies_scientists/114430 (461 words)

	Nobel laureate Robert Laughlin
		Robert Laughlin, the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences; professor of physics and applied physics; at Stanford 1985-present.
		Since receiving the prize, Laughlin has supported recruitment of talented new faculty and continued to expand the depth and scope of his own research, which is theoretical and focuses on how self-organization and self-assembly arise in nature.
		This theme is applicable in fields as diverse as cosmology and biology, explaining Laughlin's work on topics including subtle ordering phenomena in correlated-electron materials, the physics of transcription regulation in biology and the quantum mechanics of fl holes.
	news-service.stanford.edu /news/2001/october3/laughlin-103.html (155 words)

	Laughlin wins Nobel Prize in physics: 10/13/98
		Robert B. Laughlin, professor of physics and applied physics and the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, said he wants the public to understand that nature is a wonderful thing that has many surprises.
		Both Laughlin and Chu have joint appointments in the departments of physics and applied physics, and both were recruited to Stanford as a result of the joint efforts of Alexander Fetter, then chair of physics, and Malcolm Beasley, then chair of applied physics and now dean of the School of Humanities and Sciences.
		Laughlin argues that the effect is an important clue to the rules that regulate the universe.
	news-service.stanford.edu /news/1998/october14/nobel1014.html (1639 words)

	Cornell News: Laughlin chair endowed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Laughlin, who retires from Procter & Gamble in October after 43 years there as a research chemist, most recently as a research fellow, stated his hope that the position ultimately will be filled by a permanent faculty member who is an expert and an innovator in experimental phase science.
		Laughlin earned his bachelor of science in chemistry from Purdue University in 1951 and received his Ph.D. in organic chemistry in 1955 from Cornell.
		Laughlin said that the reason for the gift to Cornell is that phase science, solution physical chemistry and classical colloid science, disciplines that generated new technologies and provided scores of commercial products in the first half of the 20th century, have virtually disappeared from the curricula of U.S. universities.
	www.news.cornell.edu /releases/sept99/laughlin.chem.deb.html (505 words)

	Middle East Transparent - Emergence: Any philosophical overtones to the new scientific paradigm? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Robert Laughlin is well credentialed and prepared for writing such a book; he shared the Nobel prize in Physics with Dan Tsui and Horst Stormer in 1998 for ground-breaking work (experimental and theoretical) on the fractional quantum Hall effect, which showed that the electric charge of the electron is not indivisible.
		In this regard Laughlin adopts an “emergent” approach: he lets us develop a sense of the concept from various examples and descriptions before allowing for a definition to emerge at the end.
		Although the latter statements make it clear that emergence has strong philosophical overtones and implications, Laughlin tries to remain “scientific” (lest he be accused of “mysticism” by the “establishment”) and stick to the appropriateness of the concept to the understanding of the physical world.
	www.metransparent.com /texts/robert_laughlin_a_different_universe.htm (1588 words)

	Robert Laughlin - Newsline 10/13/98 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Laughlin becomes the 71st Nobel Prize winner who has worked at, conducted research at a Department of Energy institution, or been funded by the Department of Energy, Richardson added.
		Laughlin, who was hired to model "warm" matter at solid density for weapons design purposes, was housed in a low security area of the Laboratory, also called the "cooler," as his clearance was processed.
		Laughlin holds a bachelor of arts degree in mathematics from the University of California, Berkeley and his Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he was an IBM Fellow.
	www-phys.llnl.gov /Awards/Laughlin/Laughlin_Newsline2.html (826 words)

	Princeton - News - Clippings Oct 13 to 14 1998
		Laughlin and two fellow scientists, Daniel Tsui and Horst Stoermer, won physics prizes for their roles in figuring out that electrons in a strong magnetic field and at low temperatures can form a type of quantum liquid.
		Robert Laughlin (ph) and Daniel TsuI (ph) and Horst Stoermer (ph) were honored for work that led to a breakthrough in the understanding of quantum physics.
		Robert Laughlin, Horst Stoermer and Daniel Tsui are being honored for their discovery of how new types of particles are formed.
	www.princeton.edu /pr/news/98/c/1014-clips.htm (5022 words)

	Robert Laughlin
		Robert Laughlin was born in San Francisco to show business parents, his mother a big band singer and his father a stage magician.
		Robert has traveled to New Orleans extensively to study the art and has had direct coaching from Dr. John and noted singer/songwriter Allen Toussaint, among others.
		Robert lives with his wife and teenage daughter in Paradise, a small town in the western slopes of California's Sierra Nevada mountains.
	www.marincommunityed.org /bios/Laughlin.htm (227 words)

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		Robert Laughlin was born in Pennobscot, Maine in the spring of 1848.
		Robert clerked on a number of riverboats until he took a job as a cook for the Governor's staff at White Bear Lake.
		Officer Laughlin was particularly popular with his brother officers and considered an unusually good officer by the residents on his beat.
	www.mpdfederation.com /robert-laughlin.asp (565 words)

	A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down - PowerBookSearch!
		Robert Laughlin is the Robert M. and Anne Bass Professor of Physics at Stanford University, where he has taught since 1985.
		And Laughlin goes further: the most fundamental laws of physics - such as Newton's laws of motion or quantum mechanics - are in fact emergent.
		They are properties of large assemblages of matter, and when their exactness is examined too closely, it vanishes into nothing." Laughlin shows us why everything we think about fundamental physical laws needs to change, and why the greatest mysteries of physics are not at the ends of the universe but well within our reach.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch046503828X.html (1062 words)

	Nobel Laureate Robert Laughlin To Give Talk At CU-Boulder April 4 \| News Center \| University of Colorado at Boulder
		Laughlin, whose writing has been compared to that of the popular physicist Richard Feynman, will discuss his new book "A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics From the Bottom Down." The talk is free and open to the public.
		Laughlin was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in physics, along with Daniel Tsui and Horst Stormer, for work on how electrons behave in magnetic fields.
		Laughlin is the Robert M. and Anne Bass Professor of Physics at Stanford University, where he has taught since 1985.
	www.colorado.edu /news/releases/2005/125.html (278 words)

	Stanford University Department of Physics - Faculty: Robert B. Laughlin
		Stanford University Department of Physics - Faculty: Robert B. Laughlin
		Recent work includes model studies of doped Mott insulators, computation spectroscopic quantities -- optical conductivity, magnetic susceptibility, photoemission -- from first principles, and development of new mathematical methods based on the fractional quantum Hall effect.
		Robert M. and Anne Bass Professor of Physics
	www.stanford.edu /dept/physics/people/faculty/laughlin_robert.html (122 words)

	Piano Fun: About New School of American Music
		Robert Laughlin, the creator of the Laughlin Seminar System, might be the country’s leading authority on adult group piano lessons.
		Laughlin was born in San Francisco to show business parents, mother a big band singer and father a stage magician.
		Today Laughlin lives with his wife and teenage daughter in Paradise, a small town in the Gold Rush western slopes of Northern California’s Sierra Nevada mountains.
	www.pianofun.com /bio.html (623 words)

	Hilton Head Island,Savannah Plastic Surgeon Dr Robert Laughlin MD FACS
		Robert A. Laughlin, M.D., F.A.C.S. For more than 26 years Dr. Robert A. Laughlin has been helping people from all over the world in the specialty of plastic and reconstructive surgery.
		Laughlin is certified by the American Board of Surgery and the American Board of Plastic Surgery in the specialty of plastic and reconstructive surgery.
		Dr. Laughlin is the principal of Hilton Head Island Plastic Surgery and is an active member of the Hilton Head Regional Medical Center's surgical staff, and a consultant in plastic surgery for Beaufort Memorial Hospital and the U.S. Naval Hospital.
	www.hiltonheadislandplasticsurgery.com /hhp-doctor.htm (180 words)

	Robert Laughlin Wins Nobel Prize (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Robert Laughlin Awarded 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics
		Stoermer is at Columbia University, Tsui at Princeton, and Laughlin is a professor at Stanford who has strong historical ties to the Physics Directorate at LLNL.
		Physicist Robert Laughlin shares in 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics; 4th in a row for Stanford.
	www-phys.llnl.gov /Awards/Laughlin/Laughlin_Nobel.html (324 words)

	Robert B. Laughlin and the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect
		Additional information about Robert Laughlin and his research is available in full-text and on the Web.
		Robert Laughlin Awarded 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics, LLNL
		Robert Laughlin, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University
	www.osti.gov /accomplishments/laughlin.html (447 words)

	Who is Robert Laughlin?
		Laughlin, who teaches at Stanford University, illuminates emergent principles through a charming analogy: the paintings of Renoir and Monet.
		Laughlin and two colleagues shared the 1998 prize for their studies of a similar phenomenon, one even more bizarre than von Klitzing's, ''unanticipated by any theory and not analogous to anything previously known in nature,'' as Laughlin writes.
		Likewise, Laughlin says, physicists face a philosophical ''crisis'' over emergence, ''a confrontation between reductionist and emergent principles that continues today.'' In the history of science, philosophical crises often precede scientific revolutions.
	www.panmere.com /rosen/mhout/msg03192.html (1086 words)

	Robert B. Laughlin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Robert Betts Laughlin (born November 1, 1950) is a professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University who, together with Horst L. Störmer and Daniel C. Tsui, was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in physics for his explanation of the fractional quantum Hall effect.
		In the period of 2004-2006 he served as the president of KAIST in Daejeon, South Korea.
		Laughlin published a book entitled A Different Universe: Reinventing Physics from the Bottom Down in 2005.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Robert_Laughlin (196 words)

	Headlines@Hopkins: Johns Hopkins University News Releases
		Robert B. Laughlin, 1998 Nobel laureate in physics and president of the Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, will deliver the 2004-2005 Ferdinand G. Brickwedde Lecture in Physics and Astronomy at 4 p.m.
		One of the world's leading theoretical physicists and a frequent speaker and essayist on public dimensions of science, Laughlin - who also serves as Robert M. And Anne Bass Professor of Physics at Stanford University - is known for proposing a new way of looking at science's fundamental laws.
		Laughlin, who won the Nobel Prize for his theory of the fractional quantum Hall effect, also will serve as colloquium speaker for the Henry A. Rowland Department of Physics and Astronomy at Johns Hopkins on April 7.
	www.jhu.edu /news_info/news/home05/mar05/brickweede.html (460 words)

	Bell Labs: The Science Behind the Nobel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the institution that decides the winners, awarded the three physicists the prize "for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations" - known to physicists as the fractional quantum Hall effect.
		Laughlin showed that the quasi-particles have exactly the correct amount of fractional charge to explain Stormer and Tsui's observations.
		Stormer, Tsui and Laughlin's research led to a lot of subsequent work on the fractional quantum Hall effect, making it a very active field of physics.
	www.bell-labs.com /news/1998/october/20/3.html (1048 words)

	Dr. Robert Laughlin
		For instance, chaos theory has been all the rage of late with its speculations about the "butterfly effect," but understanding how individual streams of air combine to form a tornado is almost impossible.
		As Laughlin points out, we use computers and internal combustion engines every day, but scientists don't totally understand why all of their parts work the way they do.
		Stanford physics professor Laughlin, awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize for Physics, argues that smaller is not necessarily better.
	www.isepp.org /Pages/05-06%20Pages/Laughlin.html (438 words)

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		Although Laughlin certainly doesn't shy away from a quantity of daunting scientific theories, discoveries, inventions that are conundrums even for scientists, he manages to make them comprehensible with anecdotal illustrations and/or similes.
		There is no question, Professor Robert Laughlin is a master of his field.
		I deeply relate to Laughlin's sentiment that the current rage in string theory will unlikely lead to anything revealing, especially his point that, though ever more precise measurements have historically driven scientific discovery, when one looks too close, what is there disappears.
	www.ttgapers.com /module-ttStore-product-asin-046503828X-locale-us.html (1074 words)

	Robert Laughlin - Moviefone
		Robert B. Laughlin, professor of physics and applied physics and the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the School of Humanities and Sciences,...
		Robert B. Laughlin Early years I was born on 1 November, 1950 in Visalia, California, a medium-sized town just south of Fresno in the San Joaquin Valley.
		Robert Laughlin - Filmography, Biography, News, Photos, Birth date, Relationships, Robert Laughlin Film Clips, and Fun Facts on Moviefone.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/robert-laughlin/374970/main (105 words)

	Mediated » A Different Universe - Robert Laughlin
		His thesis is that we are leaving the age of reductionism and entering the age of emergence.
		This idea is quite similar to what physicist Robert Laughlin recommends in his recent book A Different Universe (see my earlier post).
		I also liked A Different Universe (2005) by physicist Robert Laughlin, who makes the case that reduction has gone about as far as is useful, and that there are many properties of elements that can only be found through experimentation (his work was in properties of superconductivity at very low temperatures).
	perival.com /blog/?p=14 (1208 words)

	The Reference Frame: Chapline: black holes don't exist
		There is a difference however: Laughlin is a Nobel prize winner who became a big shot in condensed matter physics while Chapline is a field theorist.
		From an outsider such as Laughlin, some comments simply may sound a bit less embarassing because everyone knows that Laughlin just tries to extend his incredible success from condensed matter physics where he has achieved everything he could to completely different fields of human activity.
		Following ideas originated by Robert Laughlin, Pawel Mazur, Emil Mottola, David Santiago, and the speaker it is now possible to describe in some detail what happens physically when one approaches and crosses a region of space-time where classical general relativity predicts there should be an infinite red shift surface.
	motls.blogspot.com /2005/03/chapline-black-holes-dont-exist.html (3209 words)

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