Professor Daniel Chee Tsui
Nobel Laureate in Physics 1998, Professor Daniel Chee Tsui is a world-renowned
physicist of Chinese descent. In 1982 Professor Tsui discovered the
remarkable fractional quantum Hall effect in his experimental studies of
electrons in high-mobility semiconductor heterostructures placed in strong
magnetic fields at very low temperatures. Professor Tsui and his
co-workers found unanticipated plateaus in the Hall conductivity, characterized
by fractional quantum numbers, in contrast to the integral quantum Hall
effect discovered two years earlier. Professor Tsui's discovery has
had a profound impact on the understanding of the collective behaviour
of strongly correlated electrons.
Born in Henan, China, Professor Tsui received his secondary education
at Pui Ching Middle School in Hong Kong. He furthered his studies
in the United States and subsequently obtained his PhD from the University
of Chicago in 1967. Upon graduation, Professor Tsui joined the Solid
State Electronics Research Laboratory at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill,
New Jersey. He has been the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical
Engineering at the School of Engineering and Applied Science at Princeton
University since 1982.
Professor Tsui's outstanding work in physics and electronic engineering
has brought him numerous prestigious awards. Besides the Nobel Prize
in Physics, he has also received the American Physical Society Oliver Buckley
Prize for Condensed Matter Physics and the Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics.
He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association
for the Advancement of Science. He is also a member of the US National
Academy of Sciences, the Academia Sinica in Taiwan and IEEE.
Professor Tsui was a plenary speaker at the Third Asia Pacific Physics
Conference organized by The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1988 to
commemorate the University's 25th anniversary. Professor
Tsui delivered a talk on the quantum Hall effect, the subject which won
him the Nobel Prize in 1998.
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