The Nobel Prize in Physics 1985
Awarded on: 1985-10-16
"for the discovery of the quantized Hall effect"
Affiliations:
- Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung – Stuttgart, Germany
Klaus von Klitzing
Born: 1943-06-28 in Schroda, German-occupied Poland (now Poland)
Gender: male
Field: German physicist (born 1943)
Biography
Klaus von Klitzing is a German physicist, known for discovery of the integer quantum Hall effect, for which he was awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics.