27 years ago today, on October 13, 1998 (August 23, 1998 lunar calendar), Chinese-American Cui Qi won the Nobel Prize in Physics. Chinese-American Cui Qi won the Nobel Prize in Physics On October 13, 1998, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced that the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics would be awarded to Americans Robert B. Laughlin, German Horst Stommer and Chinese-American Professor Cui Qi of Princeton University in recognition of their discovery of the Hall effect of fractional quantization of electrons in strong magnetic fields. This is the sixth Chinese scientist to win the Nobel Prize in Natural Science after Yang Zhenning, Li Zhengdao, Ding Zhaozhong, Li Yuanzhe and Chu Steven. The Royal Academy of Sciences' bulletin said that Stomer and Cui Qi discovered this phenomenon in 1982 by experimenting with super-strong magnetic fields and low temperatures. A year later, Laughlin explained the above two findings through theory. This discovery has important implications for people's further understanding of the universal structure and properties of matter. The contributions of the three scientists have led to new breakthroughs in people's understanding of quantum physics and promoted the development of new important theoretical concepts in modern physics. Cui Qi was born in Henan in 1939 and has been a naturalized American citizen. He received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago in 1967 and has been a professor at Princeton University since 1982. He received the Oliver Berkeley Prize from the American Physical Society in 1984 and the world-renowned Benjamin Franklin Prize in Physics in 1998. Laughlin was born in California in 1950, received a doctorate in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1979, and has been a professor at Stanford University since 1989. Stommer was born in Frankfurt, Germany in 1949, received a doctorate in physics from the University of Stuttgart in 1977, and has been working at Bell Laboratories in the United States since 1992. He is also a professor at Columbia University. In December 1998, he told reporters who interviewed him about how to study and become a person: Cui Qi believes that "success requires a certain amount of luck and timing, but hard work is the foundation." He said that he takes 20 or 30 graduate students every year, and they are all very hard-working, often spending the time spent by others at the dance party in the laboratory. It is not uncommon to work 10 to 12 hours a day on weekends. In the eyes of ordinary people, studying physics is very boring, not easy to produce results, and compared with those studying law and business, they can't make a lot of money. But Professor Cui has his own opinion. He believes that as long as you invest in physics research, you will have a lot of fun, and every time you make a new discovery, even a small one, you will enjoy endless fun. Cui Qi also said that in order to succeed, you must not be influenced by the surrounding environment. "You must believe in yourself and believe in your abilities." "I often encourage students to look forward and believe that they are engaged in a career that is useful to humanity." He said, "If you only eat three meals a day, you don't need to do research, but engage in simple physical labor, you can achieve your goal. Doing science is not for money, but to be useful to others." Cui Qi pointed out that while believing in yourself, you must also believe in others. Only by opening your heart to others will you win the trust and help of others. Doing this is especially important for Chinese who study in foreign countries far away from their homeland, because they are under greater pressure than others, and if they cannot be close to those around them, they can easily fall into isolation. "Their test scores are very good, but I tell them that doing science is not doing homework, it is just repeating what others have done before," Cui Qi said of his top students from China's elite universities. He used a metaphor, like finding your way home in the wilderness or forest, requires a pioneering spirit of exploration. Cui Qi likes the adage "only ask about the hard work, not the harvest", but this year's Nobel Prize is a great harvest of years of hard work. When asked by the reporter what he thought of this harvest, Professor Cui smiled lightly and did not answer directly. He said that he would teach his book at Princeton University as usual and immerse himself in physics research, because it was a world that made him feel very happy.