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Von Klitzing Wins Nobel Physics Prize for Quantum Hall Effect

DEC 01, 1985

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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