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ELCA NEWS SERVICE

December 3, 1998

TSUI RECEIVES NOBEL PRIZE FOR PHYSICS
98-42-240-MR

     CHICAGO (ELCA) -- Dr. Daniel C. Tsui, a graduate of Augustana
College, Rock Island, Ill., received the Nobel Prize for Physics.
Augustana is a college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
America.
     Tsui is the Arthur LeGrand Doty Professor of Electrical
Engineering
at Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., a fellow of the American
Physical
Society and a member of the National Academy of Science.
     Along with the $978,000 cash award, Tsui is sharing the honor
with
two other professors for their discoveries of how subatomic particles
can
behave like a fluid.
     The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences' citation notes that their
work
"led to yet another breakthrough in our understanding of quantum
physics
and to the development of new theoretical concepts of significance in
many
branches of modern physics."
     Born in Henan, China, in 1939, Tsui came to Augustana in 1958.
He
graduated in 1961 with a degree in mathematics and membership in
Augustana's Phi Beta Kappa chapter.
     In 1981 Tsui and his wife created the Daniel and Linda Tsui
Scholarship at Augustana College.  The scholarship is intended to
assist
international students from developing nations who have financial
needs.
Linda also attended Augustana and studied elementary education.
     "His intellect and discipline represent the very best of what we
hope
for in the students who pursue studies in the sciences at Augustana,"
said
Dr. Thomas Tredway, president of the college.  Tsui received
Augustana's
Outstanding Alumni Award in 1989.

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