Daniel C. Tsui

Physicist Daniel Tsui's research laid the groundwork for the development of superconductors. For his 1991 discovery of the fractional quantum Hall effect, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1998. Earning his master's and doctorate degrees from the University of Chicago, he joined the technical staff at Bell Labs before becoming the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor at Princeton University's electrical engineering department in 1982. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and has published more than 240 scientific papers. Updated 2009