The Nobel Prize in Physics 1998
Awarded on: 1998-10-13
"for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations"
Affiliations:
- Columbia University – New York, NY, USA
Horst L. Störmer
Born: 1949-04-06 in Frankfurt-on-the-Main, West Germany (now Germany)
Gender: male
Field: German physicist
Biography
Horst Ludwig Störmer is a German physicist, Nobel laureate and emeritus professor at Columbia University. He was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics jointly with Daniel Tsui and Robert Laughlin "for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations". He and Tsui were working at Bell Labs at the time of the experiment cited by the Nobel committee.