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1901 2011
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The Nobel Prize in Physics 1985
Klaus von Klitzing
Klaus von Klitzing
Born: 28 June 1943, Schroda, German-occupied Poland
Affiliation at the time of the award: Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart, Federal Republic of Germany
Prize motivation: "for the discovery of the quantized Hall effect"
Field: Condensed matter physics
Curriculum Vitae
| Born 28th June 1943 in Schroda (Posen), German nationality. |
| February 1962 |
| Abitur in Quakenbruck. |
| April 1962 to March 1969 |
| Technical University Braunschweig Diploma in Physics. |
| Title of diploma work: "Lifetime Measurements on InSb" (Prof. F. R. Keßler). |
| May 1969 to Nov. 1980 |
| University Würzburg (Prof. Dr. G. Landwehr) |
| Thesis work about: "Galvanomagnetic Properties of Tellurium in Strong Magnetic Fields" (Ph.D. in 1972). |
| Habilitation in 1978. |
| The most important publication related to the Nobel Prize appeared in: Phys. Rev. Letters 45, 494 (1980). |
| Research work at the Clarendon Laboratory, Oxford (1975 to 1976) and High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Grenoble (1979 to 1980). |
| Nov. 1980 to Dec. 1984 |
| Professor at the Technical University, München. |
| Since January 1985 |
| Director at the Max-Planck-Institut für Festkörperforschung, Stuttgart. |
From Nobel Lectures, Physics 1981-1990, Editor-in-Charge Tore Frängsmyr, Editor Gösta Ekspång, World Scientific Publishing Co., Singapore, 1993
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