Daniel C. Tsui

Daniel Chee Tsui崔琦( born February 28, 1939 in Henan, China) is a Chinese- American physicist. He dealt with the electrical properties of thin films with semiconductor microstructures and solid state physics.

Tsui was 1998, together with Robert B. Laughlin and Horst Ludwig Störmer the Nobel Prize in Physics awarded for the discovery of a new type of quantum fluid, the fractional quantum Hall effect, which he discovered at Bell Labs with Stormer and Arthur Gossard 1981.

Tsui was in 1958 in the United States to study at Augustana College in Rock Iceland (Illinois ). In 1961, he earned his bachelor's degree there. In 1967 he received his doctorate from the University of Chicago. 1968 to 1982 he was at Bell Laboratories. Since 1982 he is Professor of Electrical Engineering at Princeton.

In 1984 he was awarded the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize.