D. C. Tsui

Biography

Abstract

Daniel Tsui is the Arthur Legrand Doty Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. His other institutional affiliations include University of Chicago and Bell Laboratories. He won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1998 along with Robert Laughlin and Horst Störmer.

Important Dates

February 28, 1939Birth, Hunan Sheng (China).

1961Obtained BA, Augustana College, Rock Island (Ill.).

1967Obtained MS and PhD, University of Chicago, Chicago (Ill.).

1967 – 1968Research Associate, University of Chicago, Chicago (Ill.).

1968 – 1982Member, Technical Staff, Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill (N.J.).

1982 – presentArthur Legrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering to Arthur Legrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus, Princeton University, Princeton (N.J.).

1984Awarded Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize, American Physical Society.

1998Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics with Robert Laughlin and Horst Störmer "for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations".

2000Foreign Member, Chinese Academy of Sciences (Zhongguo ke xue yuan).

2004Member, National Academy of Engineering.

Occupation

Solid state physicist.

Places

Birth

Hunan Sheng (China)

Undergraduate Education

Rock Island (Ill.)

Graduate Education

Chicago (Ill.)

Employment

Murray Hill (N.J.)

Princeton (N.J.)

Subjects

Electrical engineering.

Quantum Hall effect.

Semiconductors.

Solid state physics.

Relationships

People

Advisors & Collaborators

Laughlin, Robert B.

Discovered a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations and shared the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Horst Stormer "for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations". Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Störmer, Horst

Discovered a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations and shared the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics with Robert Laughlin "for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations". Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Colleagues

Aeppli, Gabriel

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Ahlers, G. (Günter)

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Anderson, Herbert Lawrence

Both employed at University of Chicago.

Anderson, P. W. (Philip W.), 1923-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Appelbaum, J. A. (Joel A.)

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Ashkin, Arthur, 1922-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Aspnes, D. E.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Birgeneau, Robert J. (Robert Joseph), 1942-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Bishop, David John, 1951-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Boyle, Willard S., 1924-2011

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Brinkman, William F. (William Frank), 1938-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Buchsbaum, Solomon J.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Bucksbaum, Philip H.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Cava, Robert J.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Chabal, Yves Jean, 1952-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Chemla, D. S.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Chu, Ching-wu, 1941-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Chynoweth, A. G.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Clogston, Albert McCavour

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Cohen, Morrel H.

Both employed at University of Chicago.

Crewe, Albert V.

Both employed at University of Chicago.

Cutler, Cassius Chapin

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Darlington, Sidney, 1906-1997

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

David, Edward E.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

DiSalvo, Francis

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Dolan, Gerald

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Dynes, Robert C.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Falicov, L. M. (Leopoldo Maximo), 1933-1995

Both employed at University of Chicago.

Fano, Ugo

Both employed at University of Chicago.

Fisk, James B. (James Brown), 1910-1981

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Fleury, Paul A.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Franck, James, 1882-1964

Both employed at University of Chicago.

Fritzsche, Hellmut

Both employed at University of Chicago.

Fulton, Theodore Alan

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Galt, John Kirtland, 1920-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Geballe, Theodore H.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Gossard, A. C.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Hagstrum, Homer D.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Halperin, Bertrand I.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Hamann, Donald, 1939-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Herring, William Conyers, 1914-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Hohenberg, Pierre C.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Hopfield, John J.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Jackson, Shirley Ann, 1946-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Johnson, Peter D., 1952-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Kompfner, Rudolf, 1909-1977

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Lander, James J., 1914-1996

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Lax, Melvin J.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Lee, P. A. (Patrick A.), 1946-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Matthias, Bernd T., 1918-1980

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

McMillan, William L.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Mulliken, Robert Sanderson

Both employed at University of Chicago.

Murray, Cherry Ann

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Nambu, Yoichiro, 1921-2015

Both employed at University of Chicago.

Osheroff, Douglas D.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Parker, E. N. (Eugene Newman), 1927-

Both employed at University of Chicago.

Patel, C. Kumar N.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Penzias, Arno A.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Pfann, William G.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Phillips, J. C.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Phillips, Julia M.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Pinczuk, Aron

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Raghavachari, Krishnan

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Rice, Thomas Maurice, 1939-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Rowell, John Martin, 1935-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Sachs, Robert Green, 1916-

Both employed at University of Chicago.

Shank, C. V. (Charles V.)

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Simpson, John A. (John Alexander), 1916-2000

Both employed at University of Chicago.

Smith, George E., 1930-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Smith, Neville, 1942-2006

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Stillinger, F. H.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Tauc, J. (Jan)

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Telegdi, Val, 1922-2006

Both employed at University of Chicago.

Tersoff, J.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Thomas, D. G. (David Gilbert), 1928-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Weeks, John David

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Wentzel, Gregor, 1898-1978

Both employed at University of Chicago.

Wilson, Robert Woodrow, 1936-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Institutions

Major Positions

Bell Telephone Laboratories

Member, Technical staff.

Princeton University. Department of Electrical Engineering

Arthur Legrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering to Arthur Legrand Doty Professor of Electrical Engineering, Emeritus.

University of Chicago. Department of Physics

Obtained M.S. and Ph.D. in 1967 and Research Associate.

Professional Activities & Affiliations

American Association for the Advancement of Science

American Physical Society

Received 1984 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize.

Augustana College (Rock Island, Ill.)

Obtained B.A. in 1961.

National Academy of Engineering

Member.

National Academy of Sciences (U.S.)

Zhongguo ke xue yuan

Foreign Member.

Resources

Published Resources

Author

Nobel Prize Autobiography.

Perspectives in quantum Hall effects : novel quantum liquids in low-dimensional semiconductor structures / edited by Sankar Das Sarma, Aron Pinczuk.

Subject

Candid science IV : conversations with famous physicists / Magdolna Hargittai, István Hargittai.