2007-9-14

Born in a remote village in the province of Henan in central China in 1939, Daniel Chee Tsui pursued education in Beijing in early 1951. He entered Pui Ching Middle School the next year and graduated from it in 1957. The next year, Daniel pursued further education in Augustana College, Illinois, US. He then took a position in Bell Laboratories after receiving his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago in 1967. He has been a professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering of Princeton University since 1982, devoted to research of fundamental properties of electronic materials. He is an academician of National Academy of Sciences, USA.

On October 13, 1998, Daniel, German scientist Horst Stormer and American scientist Robert B. Laughlin were awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1998 by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (RSAS)for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations.

Daniel was elected as an academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences in June 2000, and academician of National Academy of Engineering in 2004. In 2005, he became an honorable professor of Chinese Academy of Sciences.

His fields of research activities are mainly electrical properties of semiconductors and solid-state physics for more powerful computers and more advanced communication equipment.