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Von Klitzing Wins Nobel Physics Prize for Quantum Hall Effect

DEC 01, 1985

DOI: 10.1063/1.2814805

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics to Klaus von Klitzing, a director of the Max Planck Institute for Solid‐State Research in Stuttgart. The 1.8‐million‐kroner ($230 000) prize was awarded for his discovery of the quantized Hall effect in 1980. Von Klitzing, who was at the time a Heisenberg fellow at the University of Würzburg, discovered the effect at the high‐field magnet laboratory in Grenoble, a joint facility of the Max Planck Institute and the CNRS.

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