June 18, 2004
Top South Korean U. Taps American Physicist to Be Its Next President
An American Nobel Prize winner and Stanford University physics professor has been named to head a South Korean institution that is one of Asia's leading research universities.
The Board of Directors of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, located in Taejon and known locally as Kaist, chose Robert B. Laughlin over two South Korean candidates. Mr. Laughlin is said to be the first foreigner to head a government-sponsored university in South Korea and the first Nobel
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