RobertLaughlin 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.
RobertLaughlin, 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.
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