Horst L. Störmer

Born: 1949

Scientist

Horst Ludwig Störmer was born in Frankfurt am Main and grew up in the surrounding area as part of a tight-knit family. He is a Nobel Prize Winner of Physics, living and teaching in New York.

In high-school, Störmer never did particularly well but always loved mathematics and the sciences, so it was not surprising that he followed his childhood dream and started to study mathematics at Goethe University in Frankfurt in 1967, transferring to Physics the year after.

Störmer moved to the United States in 1978 to join the research area of Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey. His scientific focus was to explain the fractional Quantum Hall effect, for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize of Physics together with Daniel C. Tsui and Robert B. Laughlin in 1998.

The same year, Störmer joined the faculty at Columbia University in New York City as a professor in Physics and Applied Physics in the area of Experimental Condensed Matter Physics, where he continues his research and regular publications.

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