(1939–) Chinese–American physicist
Tsui was born in Henan in China, and gained his PhD in physics in 1967 from the University of Chicago, USA. In 1998 he became professor at Princeton University, where he studied the fractional quantum Hall effect. In 1998 he shared the Nobel Prize for physics, with Robert Laughlin and Horst Störmer, for their discovery and explanation of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations.
Scientists. Academic. 2011.