Horst Ludwig Störmer is a German-American physicist known for his groundbreaking work in condensed matter physics, particularly in the field of quantum physics. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1998, along with Robert B. Laughlin and Daniel C. Tsui, for their discovery of the fractional quantum Hall effect. This phenomenon occurs in two-dimensional electron systems subjected to low temperatures and strong magnetic fields, leading to the quantization of the Hall conductance in fractions of integers.

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