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Robert Laughlin: the Nobel interview that became an impromptu press conference

03 Oct 2024 Matin Durrani

Ahead of the 2024 Nobel Prize for Physics, Physics World editors recall amusing brushes with Nobel laureates past and present. Matin Durrani remembers an encounter with Robert Laughlin that didn’t go quite as planned

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Popular figure Robert Laughlin at the Nobel Laureate Meeting in Lindau, Germany, in 2010. (Courtesy: Matin Durrani)
As a science journalist, some interviews you do go well, some don’t, but at least they usually

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Matin Durrani is editor-in-chief of Physics World
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