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Physics Nobel laureate to lecture at UD April 5

Horst L. Stormer

9 a.m., March 27, 2006--Horst L. Stormer, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics, will lecture on “Two-dimensional Electrons: Alive, Well And Kicking,” at 3 p.m., Wednesday, April 5, in 115 Purnell Hall. Part of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering spring seminar series, the event is free and open to the public.

Stormer, professor of physics and applied physics at Columbia University and adjunct physics director at Bell Laboratories, is one of the scientific directors of the Columbia University and National Science Foundation Center for Electron Transport in Molecular Nanostructures. He has completed extensive research on the properties of lower-dimensional electron systems and has published more than 200 papers on the subject.

Stormer, along with Robert B. Laughlin and Daniel C. Tsui, received the Nobel Prize in 1998 for discovering a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations. Stormer received his doctorate in physics in 1977 from the University of Stuttgart.

The lecture is sponsored by the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. For more information, contact Dr. Gabriela Stoleru at (302) 831-1445.

Article by Julia Parmley, AS '07

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