“I also taught myself how to blow glass using a propane torch from the hardware store and managed to make some elementary chemistry plumbing such as tees and small glass bulbs.”
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Robert B. Laughlin
Robert B. Laughlin is a renowned physicist known for his research in superconductivity and the quantum Hall effect. He received his Ph.D. in 1977 and has been a professor at the California Institute of Technology. Professor Laughlin is recognized for his contributions to condensed matter physics, particularly for his discovery of the quantum Hall effect, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1996. more
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