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Horst Ludwig Störmer

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Horst Ludwig Störmer (German pronunciation: [ˈhɔʁst ˈluːtvɪç ˈʃtœʁmɐ] ; born April 6, 1949) 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" (the fractional quantum Hall effect). He and Tsui were working at Bell Labs at the time of the experiment cited by the Nobel committee. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Horst Ludwig Störmer is the 197th most popular physicist (up from 235th in 2019), the 567th most popular biography from Germany (up from 792nd in 2019) and the 32nd most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Horst Ludwig Störmer ranks 197 out of 851. Before him are Isidor Isaac Rabi, Auguste Piccard, Val Logsdon Fitch, George Francis FitzGerald, Igor Tamm, and Hugh David Politzer. After him are Bertram Brockhouse, Max Delbrück, David Brewster, Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Kip Thorne, and Hugh Everett III.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Horst Ludwig Störmer ranks 45. Before him are George Foreman, Bobby Farrell, Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Carlos the Jackal, Michael Houghton, and Hugh David Politzer. After him are Patrick Süskind, Amin Maalouf, Steve Perry, Linda Lovelace, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, and José Ramos-Horta.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Horst Ludwig Störmer ranks 567 out of 7,253. Before him are Friedrich Olbricht (1888), Otto Frank (1889), Wilhelm List (1880), Robert Bosch (1861), Princess Maria Josepha of Saxony (1867), and Karl Carstens (1914). After him are Princess Charlotte of Prussia (1860), Ulrich von Hutten (1488), Hendrik Goltzius (1558), August Schleicher (1821), Adam Opel (1837), and Willi Stoph (1914).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Horst Ludwig Störmer ranks 32. Before him are Ernst Abbe (1840), Polykarp Kusch (1911), Julius von Mayer (1814), Herbert Kroemer (1928), Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742), and Hans Geiger (1882). After him are Max Delbrück (1906), Karl Schwarzschild (1873), Theodor W. Hänsch (1941), Wolfgang Paul (1913), Klaus Fuchs (1911), and Jack Steinberger (1921).

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