Robert Betts Laughlin is the Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Physics and Applied Physics at Stanford University. Along with Horst L. Störmer of Columbia University and Daniel C. Tsui of Princeton University, he was awarded a share of the 1998 Nobel Prize in physics for their explanation of the fractional quantum Hall effect.
Robert B. Laughlin
Laughlin (right) in the White House together with other 1998 US Nobel Prize Winners and the President Bill Clinton
X Development LLC, doing business as X, is an American semi-secret research and development facility and organization founded by Google in January 2010. X has its headquarters about a mile and a half from Alphabet's corporate headquarters, the Googleplex, in Mountain View, California.
Google Glass with black frames for prescription lenses
A Waymo self-driving car on the road in Mountain View
A Project Loon research balloon