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Horst Störmer
1998 Nobel Laureate,
Physics
Adjunct Physics Director,
Lucent Technologies
Professor of Physics
& Applied Physics
Columbia University
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Dr. Störmer received his Ph.D. in 1977 from the
University of Stuttgart and joined Bell Labs as a
postdoc shortly after. From 1983 to 1992 he headed
the Semiconductor Physics Research Department and
became the Director of the Physical Research Department
of AT&T; Bell Labs in 1992. In 1997 Störmer moved
to Adjunct Physics Director at Bell Labs and became
a Professor in the Physics and the Applied Physics
Department of Columbia University. Störmer has
worked on the properties of lower-dimensional electron
systems and published about 200 papers. In 1984 he
shared the Oliver E. Buckley Prize of the APS with
D. C. Tsui and A. C. Gossard for the discovery of
the fractional quantum Hall effect. He received the
Otto Klung Award of the FU of Berlin in 1985 and shared
the 1998 Franklin Medal and the 1998 Nobel Prize in
Physics with D. C. Tsui and R. B. Laughlin. Störmer
is a Bell Labs Fellow, a Fellow of the APS, a Fellow
of the AAS and a member of the NAS.
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