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Horst Ludwig Störmer

1949 - Today

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Horst Ludwig Störmer (German pronunciation: [ˈhɔʁst ˈluːtvɪç ˈʃtœʁmɐ] ; born April 6, 1949) is a German 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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Horst Ludwig Störmer has received more than 110,338 page views. His biography is available in 61 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 59 in 2019). Horst Ludwig Störmer is the 307th most popular physicist (down from 291st in 2019), the 1,417th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,345th in 2019) and the 45th most popular German Physicist.

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Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Horst Ludwig Störmer ranks 307 out of 717. Before him are Peter Mansfield, William Whewell, Hélène Langevin-Joliot, Friedrich Hund, Kenneth G. Wilson, and Edmond Becquerel. After him are Stephen Hales, Jean-Charles de Borda, Gerard 't Hooft, John Robert Schrieffer, Leon M. Lederman, and Toshihide Maskawa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Horst Ludwig Störmer ranks 81. Before him are Michael Houghton, Twiggy, Axel Honneth, Carl Bildt, Margareta of Romania, and Brahim Ghali. After him are Lasse Virén, Morten Olsen, Paloma Picasso, Arif Alvi, Gary Ridgway, and Salif Keita.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Horst Ludwig Störmer ranks 1,417 out of 6,142. Before him are Heinrich Schwabe (1789), Franz Oppenheimer (1864), Widukind of Corvey (925), Ferdinand Georg Frobenius (1849), Leonhart Fuchs (1501), and Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia (1860). After him are Christian Friedrich Schönbein (1799), Vasily Radlov (1837), Hans Vaihinger (1852), Reinhart Koselleck (1923), Thomas Tuchel (1973), and Elisabeth of the Palatinate (1618).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Horst Ludwig Störmer ranks 45. Before him are Rainer Weiss (1932), Jack Steinberger (1921), Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1912), Ludwig Prandtl (1875), Ernst Chladni (1756), and Friedrich Hund (1896). After him are Christoph Scheiner (1575), Pascual Jordan (1902), August Kundt (1839), Johann Wilhelm Hittorf (1824), Moritz von Jacobi (1801), and Manfred von Ardenne (1907).

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