Horst Ludwig Störmer Quotes

Horst Ludwig Störmer 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" . He and Tsui were working at Bell Labs at the time of the experiment cited by the Nobel committee. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. April 1949
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Famous Horst Ludwig Störmer Quotes

“In any case, one needs to accept nature's teachings.”

The fractional quantum Hall effect, Nobel Lecture http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/1998/stormer-lecture.html (December 8, 1998)

“It’s the boundaries where the excitement is and where we will be in the future.”

Small Wonders – The World of Nanoscience. Honeywell-Nobel Laureate Lecture Series at Czech Technical University, Prague (October 19, 2006), http://www.honeywellscience.com/nobel-laureates/physics/horst-stormer

“Probably in most education systems in a sense we are stuck with the disciplines as we created them last, last century and before that.”

Small Wonders – The World of Nanoscience. Honeywell-Nobel Laureate Lecture Series at Czech Technical University, Prague (October 19, 2006), http://www.honeywellscience.com/nobel-laureates/physics/horst-stormer

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