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Science 4 June 2004:
Vol. 304. no. 5676, p. 1427
DOI: 10.1126/science.304.5676.1427d
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SEOUL--A U.S. Nobel laureate has been picked to become president of the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), the first time that a foreigner has headed any Korean university.

Robert Laughlin, who won the 1998 physics prize for discovering a new form of quantum fluid, is a professor at Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, with extensive ties to Korea. His appointment still must be approved by the Ministry of Science and Technology. "This is not a done deal yet," says Laughlin, who last month was named director of the Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics in southeastern Korea. The KAIST post, a 4-year appointment, is full-time. But Laughlin says he remains "strongly committed" to his current work.

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