58215 von Klitzing | Discovered 1992 Sept. 21 by F. Börngen and L. D. Schmadel at Tautenburg. |
German Klaus von Klitzing (b. 1943), winner of the 1985 Nobel Prize in physics, demonstrated that under appropriate conditions the electrical resistance of a conductor varies only in the discrete jumps (quantum-Hall-effect), which are directly related to the so-called fine-structure constant. |
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