Horst Ludwig Störmer
Horst Ludwig Störmer (German pronunciation: [ˈhɔʁst ˈluːtvɪç ˈʃtœʁmɐ] ⓘ; born April 6, 1949) is a German physicist, Nobel laureate and emeritus professor at Columbia University. He was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Daniel Tsui and Robert Laughlin "for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations" (the fractional quantum Hall effect). He and Tsui were working at Bell Labs at the time of the experiment cited by the Nobel committee.
Horst Ludwig Störmer | |
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Störmer in 1998 | |
| Born | April 6, 1949 |
| Nationality | German |
| Alma mater | University of Stuttgart Goethe University Frankfurt |
| Known for | Fractional quantum Hall effect |
| Awards | Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1984) Nobel Prize in Physics (1998) The Benjamin Franklin Medal (1998) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Columbia University Bell Labs |
| Doctoral advisor | Hans-Joachim Queisser |
| Doctoral students | Jun Zhu |
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