Konrad Samwer

Konrad Hans Hubert Samwer (born January 26, 1952 in Göttingen ) is a German physicist specializing in materials science.

Life

After graduating from high school in 1970, Konrad Samwer studied physics at the Georg-August University in Göttingen and the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Bonn . After graduating in 1975 , he received his doctorate in 1981 on thermal and electrical properties of the metallic glass Zr Cu and completed his habilitation in 1987 on amorphization in solid metal systems . In 1989 he accepted a position as professor for experimental physics at the University of Augsburg and has been at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen since 1999. He was a visiting researcher at the California Institute of Technology in 1981/82, 1987, 1994, 1998, 2004, and 2007 .

Samwer researched magnetoresistance anomalies at low temperatures and discovered the colossal magnetoresistance on manganate layer structures ( Kondo systems ). Further of his works concern high temperature superconductors and disorder phenomena such as phase transitions and properties of amorphous systems, glasses and liquids.

Thermal and electrical properties of the metallic glass ZrCu , Dissertation Göttingen 1981
Amorphization in solid metal systems , habilitation 1987

personal data
SURNAME	Samwer, Konrad
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Samwer, Konrad Hans Hubert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German physicist and materials scientist
DATE OF BIRTH	January 26, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH	Goettingen