Horst Ludwig Störmer
Horst Ludwig Störmer ( born April 6, 1949 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German physicist. In 1998 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physics.
Life
Horst Stormer was born in 1949 in Frankfurt am Main and grew up with his younger brother Heinz in Sprendlingen on. After graduation in 1967 at the Goethe School in Neu-Isenburg, he wanted to start studying architecture at the Technical University of Darmstadt, but enrolled for construction, as he had missed the registration period. He quickly realized that he did not have great talent in this area. So he moved to the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, as he had but missed the registration period for physics here, he began with a degree in mathematics and moved in 1968 to physics.
After graduating in 1974 at the Chair Werner Martienssen under Professor Eckhardt Hoenig (* 1942) - at the same time also Gerd Binnig worked in the group - he moved to the High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Grenoble, in the group of Prof. Hans -Joachim Queisser. After his PhD (1977, University of Stuttgart ), he went to the Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill (New Jersey), New Jersey, where he first worked as a postdoc. He received in 1978 a permanent position and was appointed in 1983 to head the Department of Electrical and optical properties of solids and in 1992 Director of the Physical Research Laboratory of Bell Labs. Störmer moved in 1997 to Columbia University in New York and in 1998 was appointed professor of applied physics.
He is married to Dominique Parchet, whom he had met in Grenoble and who works at the United Nations.
Work
Horst Störmer worked in Murray Hill on two-dimensional electron gases. Having already worked with the idea of modulation doping in the first few weeks, a few months later he got a permanent position at Bell Labs. In collaboration with Daniel Tsui and Arthur Gossard he wanted to investigate on October 6, 1981 one of these modulation doped chips in the High Magnetic Field Laboratory at MIT in Cambridge for signs of the hypothetical electron crystal - but they discovered the fractional quantum Hall effect ( "fractional QHE ").
In 1998 he was awarded jointly to Robert B. Laughlin and Daniel Chee Tsui received the Nobel Prize in Physics "for their discovery of a new type of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations ."
Awards
Works
- Magnetolumineszenz of electron-hole drops in germanium. Dissertation, University of Stuttgart, 1977