PrincetonUniversity                       Daniel C. Tsui To Share 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics. Daniel Chee Tsui, Arthur Legrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering, on Tuesday has won the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics for his 1982 discovery with co-winner Horst L. Stormer, now of Columbia University, of the fractional quantum Hall effect. A third co-winner, Robert B. Laughlin, explained their result the following year. The experiments by Tsui and Stormer led to Laughlin's finding that the electrons in a powerful magnetic field can form a quantum fluid, in which "parts" of an electron can be identified.       Tsui's work stems from a 1879 finding by a student, Edwin H. Hall, who discovered a pattern in the flow of electric current when a gold plate is placed in a magnetic field at right angles to its surface. The current flowing along the plate would drop at right angles. This phenomenon, termed the Hall effect, can be used to determine the density of charge carriers in conductors and semiconductors and is a standard tool in physics laboratories. More... • Department of Electrical Engineeirng  University home | Caption page archive | Communications Office | Web page feedback