Horst Ludwig Störmer
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Horst Ludwig Störmer Net Worth

Horst Ludwig Störmer is a German-born American physicist who was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contribution to the discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations. Born in Frankfurt, Germany, Störmer grew up with an aptitude for both physics and architecture. After completing his schooling, he shifted to mathematics and physics and earned a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Stuttgart. He then moved to the United States to take up a job at the Bell Labs, where he collaborated with Daniel Tsui to perform important research on the quantum Hall effect, leading to the discovery of the fractional quantum Hall effect.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Physicist
Birth Day April 06, 1949
Birth Place Frankfurt, Germany, German
Age 74 YEARS OLD
Birth Sign Taurus
Alma mater University of Stuttgart Goethe University Frankfurt
Known for Fractional quantum Hall effect
Awards Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize (1984) Nobel Prize in Physics (1998) The Benjamin Franklin Medal (1998)
Fields Physics
Institutions Columbia University Bell Labs
Doctoral advisor Hans-Joachim Queisser

💰 Net worth

Horst Ludwig Störmer, a renowned German physicist, is estimated to have a net worth ranging from $100,000 to $1 million as of 2024. Throughout his illustrious career, Störmer has made significant contributions to the field of physics and has been recognized globally for his groundbreaking research on the fractional quantum Hall effect. His pioneering work has not only garnered immense acclaim within the scientific community but has also likely played a role in his financial success. As he continues to delve into new scientific frontiers and push the boundaries of our understanding, Störmer's net worth is anticipated to grow further, solidifying his status as one of the most prominent physicists in the world.

Biography/Timeline

1949

Horst Ludwig Störmer (born April 6, 1949) is a German-born American 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.

1977

Störmer moved to France to carry out his PhD research in Grenoble, working in a high-magnetic field laboratory which was run jointly between the French CNRS and the German Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research. Störmer's academic advisor was Prof. Hans-Joachim Queisser, and he was awarded a PhD by the University of Stuttgart in 1977 for his thesis on investigations of electron hole droplets subject to high magnetic fields. He also met his wife, Dominique Parchet, while working in Grenoble.

1981

Perhaps as important as the work for which he won the Nobel prize is his invention of modulation doping, a method for making extremely high mobility two dimensional electron systems in semiconductors. This enabled the later observation of the fractional quantum Hall effect, which was discovered by Störmer and Tsui in October 1981 in an experiment carried out in the Francis Bitter High Magnetic Field Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Within a year of the experimental discovery, Robert Laughlin was able to explain its results. Störmer, Tsui and Laughlin were jointly awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics for their work.

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