Nobel Prizes Awarded To US Scientists In Physics And Chemistry
Five US researchers win Nobel Prizes in physics and chemistry for work on quantum matter. Physics laureates Laughlin, Stoermer, Tsui identify a new form of quantum fluid and quasiparticles, with potential microelectronics impact. Chemistry prize goes to Walter Kohn and John Pople for density functional theory and computational methods in quantum chemistry. The awards total 978000 dollars.
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Sweden
United States
Walter Kohn
University of California-Santa Barbara
Ment
Pople
Robert B. Laughlin
Horst L. Stoermer
Germany
Daniel C. Tsui
China
Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
Laughlin
Stanford University
Stoermer
Columbia University
Tsui
Princeton University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Mansour Shayegan
Tsai
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Mats Jonson
Chalmers Institute of Technology
Klaus von Kiltzing
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