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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 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 61 in 2019). Horst Ludwig Störmer is the 234th most popular physicist (up from 307th in 2019), the 792nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,417th in 2019) and the 35th most popular German Physicist.

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  • 63.12

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  • 65

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 19.70

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  • 2.64

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Over the past year Horst Ludwig Störmer has had the most page views in the with 11,685 views, followed by German (3,887), and Chinese (3,376). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hakka (192.86%), Haitian (106.62%), and Catalan (75.44%)

Among PHYSICISTS

Among physicists, Horst Ludwig Störmer ranks 234 out of 851. Before him are Theodor W. Hänsch, Edme Mariotte, Makoto Kobayashi, Burton Richter, Joseph Plateau, and Serge Haroche. After him are William Shockley, Rolf Maximilian Sievert, Leon M. Lederman, Henry Way Kendall, John Kendrew, and Valentin Ceaușescu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Horst Ludwig Störmer ranks 54. Before him are Amin Maalouf, Don Johnson, Nando Parrado, Ruud Krol, Ashraf Ghani, and Billy Joel. After him are Dubravka Ugrešić, Luis Sepúlveda, Tom Waits, Jim Broadbent, Peter Shilton, and Zoia Ceaușescu.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Horst Ludwig Störmer ranks 792 out of 7,253. Before him are Bernd Schuster (1959), Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock (1724), Ferdinand von Lindemann (1852), Ludwig Quidde (1858), Gisela of Hungary (980), and Joseph Wirth (1879). After him are Johann Christoph Adelung (1732), Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck (1870), Eduard Dietl (1890), Johannes Peter Müller (1801), Thietmar of Merseburg (975), and Volker Schlöndorff (1939).

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Among PHYSICISTS In Germany

Among physicists born in Germany, Horst Ludwig Störmer ranks 35. Before him are Hans Georg Dehmelt (1922), Polykarp Kusch (1911), Gustav Ludwig Hertz (1887), Wolfgang Paul (1913), Herbert Kroemer (1928), and Theodor W. Hänsch (1941). After him are Klaus Hasselmann (1931), Georg Bednorz (1950), Rainer Weiss (1932), Max Delbrück (1906), August Kundt (1839), and Carl von Linde (1842).

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