Since receiving the prize, Laughlin has supported recruitment of talented new faculty and continued to expand the depth and scope of his own research, which is theoretical and focuses on how self-organization and self-assembly arise in nature. This theme is applicable in fields as diverse as cosmology and biology, explaining Laughlin's work on topics including subtle ordering phenomena in correlated-electron materials, the physics of transcription regulation in biology and the quantum mechanics of black holes. About one-third of his research students are undergraduates.

• The Nobel prize: 100 years of honoring achievement
  
  
• Laughlin's faculty profile
  
  
• Laughlin's research
  
  
• Laughlin shares Nobel Prize; four in a row for
  physics (Stanford Report, 10/14/98)
  
  
• Laughlin's homepage
  

Nobel website:

• 1998 Prize in Physics
  
  
• Laughlin's autobiography
  
  
• Photo of award ceremony
  
  
• Illustrated presentation of research
  
  
• VIDEO: 1998 ceremony and banquet