Horst Störmer

Biography

Abstract

Horst Störmer is the I. I. Rabi Professor of Physics at Columbia University. His other institutional affiliations include University of Stuttgart and Bell Laboratories. He was awarded the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics with Daniel Tsui and Robert Laughlin.

Important Dates

April 6, 1949Birth, Frankfurt am Main (Germany).

1974Obtained Diplom in Physics, University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main (Germany).

1977Physicist, High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Max Plank Institute for Solid State Research (Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung).

1977Obtained PhD in Physics, University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart (Germany).

1977 – 1983Consultant (1977-1978) and Member, Technical Staff (1978-1983), Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill (N.J.).

1983 – 1997Head, Department for Electronic and Optical Properties of Solids (1983-1991) and Director, Physical Research Laboratory (1991-1997), AT & T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill (N.J.).

1984Awarded Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize, American Physical Society.

1998Awarded Nobel Prize in Physics with Daniel Tsui and Robert Laughlin "for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations".

1998 – presentProfessor of Physics and Applied Physics (1998-2006) and I. I. Rabi Professor of Physics (2006-present), Columbia University, New York (N.Y.).

Occupation

Condensed matter physicist.

Places

Birth

Frankfurt am Main (Germany)

Undergraduate Education

Frankfurt am Main (Germany)

Graduate Education

Stuttgart (Germany)

Employment

Murray Hill (N.J.)

New York (N.Y.)

Subjects

Condensed matter.

Low temperature research.

Quantum Hall effect.

Semiconductors.

Relationships

People

Family

Stormer, Dominique Parchet

Wife.

Stormer, Heinz

Brother.

Advisors & Collaborators

Laughlin, Robert B.

Discovered a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations and shared the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Daniel Tsui "for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations". Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Tsui, D. C. (Daniel Chee), 1939-

Discovered a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations and shared the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics along with Robert Laughlin "for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations". Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Colleagues

Aeppli, Gabriel

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Ahlers, G. (Günter)

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Alivisatos, P.

Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.

Al'tshuler, B. L.

Both employed at Columbia University.

Anderson, P. W. (Philip W.), 1923-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Appelbaum, J. A. (Joel A.)

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Ashkin, Arthur, 1922-

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Aspnes, D. E.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Bishop, David John, 1951-

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Boyle, Willard S., 1924-2011

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Brinkman, William F. (William Frank), 1938-

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Buchsbaum, Solomon J.

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Bucksbaum, Philip H.

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Cava, Robert J.

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Chabal, Yves Jean, 1952-

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Chaudhari, Praveen, 1937-

Both employed at Columbia University.

Chemla, D. S.

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Christ, Norman

Both employed at Columbia University.

Chu, Steven

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Chynoweth, A. G.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Clogston, Albert McCavour

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Coppersmith, Susan Nan

Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.

Cutler, Cassius Chapin

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Devons, Samuel

Both employed at Columbia University.

DiSalvo, Francis

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Dolan, Gerald

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Dynes, Robert C.

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Eigler, Donald

Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.

Eisenstein, James P. (James Philip)

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Fleury, Paul A.

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Fulton, Theodore Alan

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Gossard, A. C.

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Greene, Laura H.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Hagstrum, Homer D.

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Haldane, F. Duncan M.

Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.

Hamann, Donald, 1939-

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Hellman, Frances

Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.

Herring, William Conyers, 1914-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Hohenberg, Pierre C.

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Hopfield, John J.

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Isaacs, Eric D.

Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.

Jackson, Shirley Ann, 1946-

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Johnson, Peter D., 1952-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Kahn, Steven Michael

Both employed at Columbia University.

Lee, P. A. (Patrick A.), 1946-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Lee, T. D., 1926-

Both employed at Columbia University.

Matthias, Bernd T., 1918-1980

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Millis, Andrew J.

Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories and Columbia University.

Murray, Cherry Ann

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Nagamiya, S. (Shoji)

Both employed at Columbia University.

Narath, Albert, 1933-

Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.

Osheroff, Douglas D.

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Patel, C. Kumar N.

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Penzias, Arno A.

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Pfann, William G.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Phillips, J. C.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Phillips, Julia M.

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Pinczuk, Aron

Both employed at Columbia University and Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Raghavachari, Krishnan

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Rice, Thomas Maurice, 1939-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Rowell, John Martin, 1935-

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Ruderman, Malvin A.

Both employed at Columbia University.

Schwartz, Melvin, 1932-2006

Both employed at Columbia University.

Sciulli, Frank J.

Both employed at Columbia University.

Shank, C. V. (Charles V.)

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Smith, George E., 1930-

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Smith, Neville, 1942-2006

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Stillinger, F. H.

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Tank, David William, 1953-

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Tersoff, J.

Both employed at Bell Telephone Laboratories.

Thomas, D. G. (David Gilbert), 1928-

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Weeks, John David

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Weinberg, Erick J.

Both employed at Columbia University.

Willett, Robert L.

Both employed at AT & T Bell Laboratories.

Wilson, Robert Woodrow, 1936-

Both employed at Bell Laboratories.

Additional

Sarma, Sankar Das, 1953-

Institutions

Major Positions

AT & T Bell Laboratories

Head, Department of Electronic and Optical Properties of Solids and Director, Physical Research Laboratory.

Bell Labs Innovations

Director, Physical Research Laboratory.

Bell Telephone Laboratories

Consultant; Member, Technical staff; and Head, Department for Electronic and Optical Properties of Solids.

Columbia University. Department of Physics

I. I. Rabi Professor of Physics and Professor of Physics and Applied Physics.

Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung

Physicist, High Magnetic Field Laboratory.

Professional Activities & Affiliations

American Physical Society

Received 1984 Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize.

Universität Frankfurt am Main

Obtained Diplom in Physics (1974).

Universität Stuttgart

Obtained PhD in Physics (1977).

Resources

Published Resources

Author

Nobel Prize Autobiography.

Perspectives in quantum Hall effects : novel quantum liquids in low-dimensional semiconductor structures / edited by Sankar Das Sarma, Aron Pinczuk.