Nobel Laureate to Present Rustgi Lecture

By Arthur Page

Release Date: August 9, 2000 This content is archived.

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BUFFALO, N.Y. -- "Fractional Charges and Other Tales from Flatland" will be the topic of The Moti Lal Rustgi Memorial Lecture, to be delivered by Nobel laureate Horst Störmer at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 8 in Room 225 of the Natural Sciences Complex on the University at Buffalo North (Amherst) Campus.

The lecture will be presented by the Department of Physics in the College of Arts and Sciences.

A professor of physics and applied physics at Columbia University and adjunct physics director for Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, Störmer shared the 1998 Nobel Prize in Physics with Daniel C. Tsui and Robert B. Laughlin for their discovery of a new form of quantum fluid with fractionally charged excitations.

For further information, contact the Department of Physics at 645-2017 or www.physics.buffalo.edu or contact Michael Fuda at fuda@acsu.buffalo.edul