Horst Ludwig Störmer
Horst Ludwig Störmer | |
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Born | |
Nationality | German |
Alma mater | University of Stuttgart
The Benjamin Franklin Medal (1998) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Physics |
Institutions | Columbia University Bell Labs |
Doctoral advisor | Hans-Joachim Queisser |
Doctoral students | Jun Zhu |
Horst Ludwig Störmer (German pronunciation:
Biography
Störmer was born in
Störmer moved to France to carry out his PhD research in Grenoble, working in a high-magnetic field laboratory which was run jointly between the French CNRS and the German Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research. Störmer's academic advisor was Hans-Joachim Queisser, and he was awarded a PhD by the University of Stuttgart in 1977 for his thesis on investigations of electron hole droplets subject to high magnetic fields. He also met his wife, Dominique Parchet, while working in Grenoble.[3] They divorced each other a few years later.
After receiving his PhD, Störmer moved to the US to work at
Störmer is a naturalized US citizen.[6]
Research career
Perhaps as important as the work for which he won the Nobel prize is his invention of
References
- ^ a b Home page at Columbia
- S2CID 17639748
- ^ a b c Horst Ludwig Störmer on Nobelprize.org
- ^ "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-05-21.
- ^ "Horst L. Stormer | Biography, Nobel Prize, & Facts".
- ^ "Horst L. Störmer".
- ^ Nobel Prize press release
External links
- Horst L. Stormer Patents
- Honeywell - Nobel Interactive Studio
- Horst Ludwig Störmer on Nobelprize.org including the Nobel Lecture, December 8, 1998 The Fractional Quantum Hall Effect