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Klaus von Klitzing

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Klaus von Klitzing, born in 1943, is a German physicist. He won the 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics for his discovery of the integer quantum Hall effect, a phenomenon observed in electrical conductors under strong magnetic fields at low temperatures in which the Hall conductance takes on precisely quantized values.

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