Robert B. Laughlin
Robert B. Laughlin is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Physics at Stanford University. In 1998 he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on the fractional quantum Hall effect. He is the author of The Crime of Reason and A Different Universe. He lives in Palo Alto, California.
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Powering the Future
- By: Robert B. Laughlin
- Narrator: Traber Burns
- Length: 5 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2011
- Language: English
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In Powering the Future, Nobel laureate Robert B. Laughlin transports us two centuries into the future, when we’ve ceased to use carbon from the ground. Boldly, Laughlin predicts no earth-shattering transformations will have taken place. Six... Read more
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