HORST L. STORMER

1998 Nobel Laureate in Physics

for discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations.

• Born: 1949
• Place of birth: Frankfurt/Main, Germany
• Education: PhD in physics 1977 at Stuttgart University (Germany)
• Residence: New York, NY (U.S.A.)
• Affiliation: Physics Department, Columbia University (New York, NY 10027, U.S.A.); Bell Laboratories, Lucent Technologies (Murray Hill, NJ, U.S.A.)
  • Telephone: (212)854-3279
  • Email: horst@phys.columbia.edu

• Other books on Quantum Hall Effect are available here for browsing

• Prize co-recipient: Robert B. Laughlin
• Prize co-recipient: Daniel C. Tsui
• Official award announcement and brief background
• In-depth background information in Adobe PDF format
• Bell Labs press release
• Prof. Stormer's Columbia University profile and key publications

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• Articles on the Fractional Quantum Hall Effect

• Computer visualization of the fractional hall effect
• CNN coverage of the award
• A brief explanation of the Quantum Fractional Hall Effect
• Columbia University article
• An article from Columbia Record
• Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies (submitted by Saswato R. Das)
• Some lecture notes on the Quantum Hall effects
• TIME coverage of the event (submitted by Kristen Reier)
• The 1998 Franklin Institute Award for Horst L. Stormer (submitted by Nikolai N. Kostyukovich)
• Horst L. Störmer – Autobiography (submitted by Chinnappan Baskar)
• Physics at Minnesota: 2002 Van Vleck Lecture (submitted by Davis)
• Horst Stormer: Columbia NSEC (submitted by Jackson)
• Stormer, Horst L (submitted by Tamil Samy)
• discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations. (submitted by Valka)
• Horst Stormer Biography from Encyclopedia Britannica (submitted by www.britannica.com)

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