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Klaus von Klitzing

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition

Klaus von Klitzing 1943-, German physicist, Ph.D. Univ. of Würzburg, 1972. He was a professor at the Technical Univ. of Munich (1980-85) and then director of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Physics. His discovery that electrical resistance varies by discrete, quantized jumps made the extremely precise measurement of electrical resistance possible. For his discovery he was awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics. Author not available, VON KLITZING, KLAUS. , The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2007 ... Read more

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...quantized Hall effect, for which Klaus von Klitzing was awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in physics. Before von Klitzing's work it was thought that the...greater the voltage difference. Von Klitzing showed that under the special... Read more

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