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| | Klaus von Klitzing Biography | World of Biology |
 | | Klitzing was awarded the 1985 Nobel Prize in physics for his discovery of the quantized Hall effect, Von Klitzing's discovery has had a number of profound effects in both theoretical and practical fields of physics, exhibiting one of the first instances in which quantum effects had been observed on a macroscopic scale. |
 | | Klaus von Klitzing was born on June 28, 1943, in Schroda, Germany, close to the Polish border, to Bogislav von Klitzing, a forester, and Anny Ulbrich. |
 | | That constant, 25,813 ohms, is significant because it is the ratio of two fundamental constants of nature, the square of an electron's electrical charge and Planck's constant. |
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