Horst Ludwig Störmer

German physicist

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He found a quantum fluid where particles carry fractions of the charge they're supposed to have — a discovery that defied the rules and won him a Nobel.

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Horst Ludwig Störmer was born in Germany on April 6, 1949, and became a physicist whose career led him to Bell Labs, where the work that would define him took place. In 1998, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics with Daniel Tsui and Robert Laughlin for discovering the fractional quantum Hall effect — a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations. He and Tsui had conducted the experiment at Bell Labs, uncovering behavior in matter that shouldn't have been possible under existing theory. The prize established him as a major figure in condensed matter physics. He later became…

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Horst Ludwig Störmer
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Probably in most education systems in a sense we are stuck with the disciplines as we created them last, last century and before that.
Small Wonders – The World of Nanoscience. Honeywell-Nobel Laureate Lecture Series at Czech Technical University, Prague (October 19, 2006),
Horst Ludwig Störmer
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It’s the boundaries where the excitement is and where we will be in the future.
Small Wonders – The World of Nanoscience. Honeywell-Nobel Laureate Lecture Series at Czech Technical University, Prague (October 19, 2006),
Horst Ludwig Störmer
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In any case, one needs to accept nature's teachings.
The fractional quantum Hall effect, Nobel Lecture [http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1998/stormer-lecture.html ]
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