What discovery granted Störmer the Nobel Prize?
Relativity Theory
Quantum Fluid with fractionally charged excitations
String Theory
Quantum Gravity
Answer
In 1998, Horst Störmer was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of a quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations. He made this discovery while working with David Thouless and Robert Laughlin at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. The discovery was made by studying the behavior of electrons in a two-dimensional electron gas at very low temperatures.
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