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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.