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Horst L. Störmer
Full Name of the recipient | Horst L. Störmer |
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Award | Nobel Prize in Physics |
Year of Award | 1998 |
Share in Award | 33.3% |
Award Shared with | Robert B. Laughlin (33.3%) Daniel C. Tsui (33.3%) |
Motivation for the Award | for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations |
Affiliation at the Time of Award | Columbia University, New York, NY, USA |
Place of Birth | Frankfurt-on-the-Main, West Germany (now known as Germany DEU) |
Date of Birth | 6 April 1949 |
Age at the time of Award | 48 years |