Meet a Nobel Prize Winner (Stage 5, Stage 6)

Prof. Dr. Klaus von Klitzing was born in 1943 in Schroda. He received his PhD from the University of Würzburg in 1972. After research stays in England, USA and France he became in 1980 Professor at the Technical University in Munich and in 1980 director at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany. He has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1985 for the discovery of the Quantum Hall Effect. This quantum effect opened a new research field and initiated the introduction of a new international system of units based on constants of nature.

Michelle Simmons is a Scientia Professor of Physics at UNSW, Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Quantum Computation and Communication Technology (CQC2T), founding Director of Silicon Quantum Computing and Editor-in-Chief, Nature Quantum Information.  In 2018 she was named Australian of the Year and became a Fellow of the Royal Society in London. Michelle currently leads a large research group at CQC2T dedicated to the fabrication of atomic-scale devices in silicon.