Nobel Prize Winner to Speak at Rowan Engineering Program

September 28, 2004

The College of Engineering at Rowan University will present 1998 Nobel Prize winner Dr. Horst L. Stormer, professor of physics and applied physics at Columbia University and physicist at Bell Labs, as guest speaker for the Henry M. Rowan Speaker Series on Thursday, October 28, at 1:30 p.m. in the Betty Long Lecture Hall in Rowan Hall.

Stormer, a Nobel winner in physics, will present a lecture titled ?Small Wonders: the World of Nano Science.?

Stormer received his Ph.D. in 1977 from the University of Stuttgart, Germany. He then joined Bell Labs, the research and development division of Lucent Technologies, where he worked for approximately 20 years, primarily focused on condensed matter physics. From 1983 to 1992, he headed the Semiconductor Physics Research Department. In 1992, he became the director of the Physical Research Laboratory of AT&T Bell Labs. In 1997, Stormer became adjunct physics director at Bell Labs and a professor in the Physics and Applied Physics Department of Columbia University. In 1998, he shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations known as the fractional quantum Hall effect.

Stormer?s presentation is part of the ongoing Henry M. Rowan Speaker Series, which is sponsored by the College of Engineering and the Dean?s Advisory Council. Top professionals in their fields are brought to campus to discuss relevant topics of interest to students, engineers and the general public. The presentation is free and open to the public.

For more information on this event, call Kathy Urbano at (856) 256-5309.