Klaus von Klitzing

Klaus von Klitzing belongs to that rare group whose discovery quietly reshaped the world. His integer quantum Hall effect didn't just win the 1985 Nobel Prize; it gave us a way to define electrical resistance with near-perfect precision, turning a deep quantum truth into a practical standard the whole planet relies on. Born in what is now Poland and forged in German research labs, he stacked up honor after honor without ever feeling like a showman. I'm no physicist, but I find something humbling about a mind that can spot such clean order hidden in nature. He earns my unreserved respect.

Name (English)

Klaus von Klitzing

Name (Japanese)

クラウス・フォン・クリッツィング

Reading

くらうす・ふぉん・くりっつぃんぐ

Born

June 28, 1943 (age 83)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Goat

Origin

Środa Wielkopolska, Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland

Occupation

physicist / university teacher

University

University of Würzburg

Awards & achievements

• 1986 Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg
• Great Cross with Star and Sash of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
• 1985 Nobel Prize in Physics
• 1988 Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
• 1981 Walter Schottky Prize
• 1988 Dirac Medal for the Advancement of Physics
• 2005 Carl Friedrich Gauss Medal
• 2013 Hall of Fame of German Research

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A6%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A9%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AA%E3%83%83%E3%83%84%E3%82%A3%E3%83%B3%E3%82%B0

Tags

• Greater Poland Voivodeship
• physicist
• university teacher

Last updated

2026-06-02

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