崔琦

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崔琦1939年喺河南出世，年少時到香港投靠親友，就讀培正中學。1958年佢獲美國奧古斯塔納學院錄取，離港赴美——那一次係佢最後一次見到父母，成為佢一生最深刻嘅遺憾。1982年佢喺普林斯頓同史特默、戈薩德發現「分數量子霍爾效應」，揭示電子喺強磁場下會表現出好似分數電荷嘅行為，開闢咗量子物理新領域，並因此獲1998年諾貝爾物理學獎。

English

Born in Henan in 1939, Tsui left mainland China as a boy and studied at Pui Ching Middle School in Hong Kong; in 1958 he sailed for Augustana College in the US — never to see his parents again. At Princeton in 1982, with Horst Störmer and Arthur Gossard, he discovered the fractional quantum Hall effect, revealing that electrons in a strong magnetic field behave as if they carry fractional charge. The discovery earned the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics.