Horst Ludwig Störmer

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birth_date = April 6, 1949
birth_place = Frankfurt, Germany
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nationality = Germany
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field = Physics
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known_for = quantum Hall effect
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prizes = Nobel Prize in Physics (1998)
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Horst Ludwig Störmer (born April 6, 1949 in Frankfurt, Germany) is a German physicist who shared the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics with Daniel Tsui and Robert Laughlin. The three shared the prize "for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations" (the fractional quantum Hall effect) [Citation
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url= http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17769353
last=Stormer
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publication-date=1983 Jun 17
year=1983
title=The Quantized Hall Effect.
volume=220
issue=4603
periodical=Science
pages=1241-1246
doi = 10.1126/science.220.4603.1241] . He and Tsui worked at Bell Labs at the time of the experiment cited by the Nobel committee, though the experiment itself was carried out in a laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (Laughlin did not participate in the experiment but was later able to explain its results.) Horst Störmer studied physics at the J.W. Goethe-Universität at Frankfurt am Main. Störmer is the I I Rabi professor of physics and applied physics at Columbia University in New York. Perhaps as important as the work he won the Nobel prize for is his invention of modulation doping, a method for making extremely high mobility two dimensional electron systems in semiconductors. This work enabled the later observation of the fractional quantum Hall effect.

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* [http://nobelprize.org/physics/laureates/1998/stormer-autobio.html Nobel autobiography]
* [http://www.ap.columbia.edu/fac-bios/stormer/faculty.html Home page at Columbia]
* [http://www.patentgenius.com/inventor/StormerHorstL.html Horst L. Stormer Patents]
* [http://www.honeywellscience.com Honeywell - Nobel Interactive Studio]