Background
Störmer was born in Frankfurt am Main, and grew up in the nearby town of Sprendlingen.
physicist university professor
Störmer was born in Frankfurt am Main, and grew up in the nearby town of Sprendlingen.
He studied physics at the J.W. Goethe-Universität at Frankfurt am Main, qualifying for his Diploma in the laboratory of Professor Werner Martienssen.
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. Here he was supervised by Professor
Eckhardt Hoenig, and worked alongside another future Nobel laureate, Gerd Binnig.
Störmer moved to France to carry out his Doctor of Philosophy research in Grenoble, working in a high-magnetic field laboratory which was run jointly between the French National Center for Scientific Research and the German Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research. Störmer"s academic advisory was Professor
Hans-Joachim Queisser, and he was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy by the University of Stuttgart in 1977 for his thesis on investigations of electron hole droplets subject to high magnetic fields. After working at Bell Labs for 20 years, he became the I.I. Rabi professor of physics and applied physics at Columbia University in New York City, and is now an emeritus professor
Störmer is a naturalized United States citizen.
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 Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Within a year of the experimental discovery, Robert Laughlin was able to explain its results.
National Academy of Sciences.