| Klaus von Klitzing  Born: 28-Jun-1943
Birthplace: Schroda, Poland
Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Occupation: Physicist Nationality: Germany
Executive summary: Quantization of resistance Born in German occupied Poland during World War II, he moved with his family to West Germany after the war. In 1980 he discovered that resistance in silicon was not analog but instead varied by small discrete amounts, a phenomenon he called the "integer quantization Hall effect". For this discovery he won the Nobel Prize in 1985. He is presently the director of the Max-Planck-Institut fr Festkrperforschung, Stuttgart. University: Technical University of Brunswick (1969)
University: PhD Physics, University of Würzburg (1972)
Professor: Technical University of Munich (1980-)
Nobel Prize for Physics 1985
Pontifical Academy of Sciences
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