Klaus von Klitzing is a German physicist known for his significant contributions to condensed matter physics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1985 for his discovery of the quantized Hall effect, which he observed while studying two-dimensional electron systems at very low temperatures and in strong magnetic fields. This phenomenon occurs when the electrical resistance of a two-dimensional conductor becomes quantized, meaning that it takes on discrete values rather than a continuous range.
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