Horst L. Stormer

Horst L.
Stormer
Year
1998
Subject
Physics
Award
Benjamin Franklin Medal
Affiliation
Bell Labs | New Providence, New Jersey
Citation
To Tsui and Stormer for their experimental elucidation of the fractional quantum Hall effect, an extraordinary manifestation of the correlations in two-dimensional electronic systems, and to Laughlin for his creative theoretical formulation of the fractional quantum Hall effect, which identified a completely new quantum state of the highly correlated two-dimensional electron gas in magnetic field.

Horst Stormer received a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Stuttgart in Germany in 1977. He joined Bell Labs as a postdoctoral fellow in 1977 and has been a member of the technical staff at Bell Labs since 1978. Internationally recognized as a leading physicist, Stormer is a Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Information of 1998