Peter Haasen

Göttingen city cemetery, grave of Professor Peter Haasen (right)

Peter Haasen (born July 21, 1927 in Gotha , † October 18, 1993 in Göttingen ) was a German physicist.

Life

Peter Haasen grew up as the son of a lawyer in Gotha, where he also attended school until 1944. After serving in the war in 1944-45, the family moved to Göttingen , where he passed his Abitur and began studying physics, which he completed in 1951. He was shaped during his studies by Richard Becker and his assistant Günther Leibfried . In 1953 he was in Göttingen with a thesis for orientation dependence of the hardening curve face-centered cubic metal crystals Dr. rer. nat. obtained his doctorate and left Göttingen in 1954 after his first academic activity to work at the Institute for the Study of Metals at the University of Chicago with CS Smith and CS Barett. Under the guidance of AW Lawson, he described the Haasen-Kelly effect there due to his experimental work and developed his interest in metallurgy . In 1956 he returned to Germany and initially worked with Werner Köster at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart. In 1958 he was appointed to the renowned chair for metal physics and general metal science at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen , which Gustav Tammann had already held, as the successor to Georg Masing , and held this chair until his retirement in 1992. During this time he expanded his institute, which he soon renamed the Institute for Metal Physics, to a considerable extent and gave it worldwide scientific recognition and recognition. His international scientific contacts were based on numerous stays abroad, for example in Cambridge (1961), Pennsylvania (1963 and 1971), Paris (1978) and Stanford ( Schottky Professorship 1984 and 1988). After his retirement, he continued to head the then vacant Göttingen Institute for Metal Physics in 1993. His doctoral student Bill Cormann Giessen could not succeed him.

Fonts

Peter Haasen has stood out through numerous works and a total of over 220 publications.

• Physical metallurgy , Springer, Berlin, 1994 (3rd edition)

Memberships

• American Physical Society
• National Academy of Engineering
• Academy of Sciences in Göttingen , President 1981–1983
• German Physical Society
• German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (1986)
• Academia Europaea

Awards

• Heyn commemorative coin 1976 of the German Society for Material Science
• Robert Franklin Flour Award 1985
• Gay Lussac Humboldt Prize 1989
• Max Planck Research Award 1993

Peter Haasen Prize

The University of Göttingen (Institute for Materials Physics) awards the Peter Haasen Prize of the University of Göttingen, named after Haasen, together with the Peter Haasen Foundation . The prize is endowed with 5000 euros.

family

Haasen's two years younger brother Uwe , like his father, who was employed by Gothaer , began a career in the insurance sector and later became CEO of Allianz Lebensversicherung and Allianz Versicherung . The two were also related to Karl August Friedrich Samwer and Hans Samwer through their mother .

literature

• Anthony Kelly: Peter Haasen 1927-1993 in: Memorial tributes, Volume 7 , National Academy of Engineering, National Academies Press, 1994, pp. 97-102 in English
• Gunther von Minnigerode , Bernd Moeller : Obituary Peter Haasen - July 21, 1927 - October 18, 1993 , in: Yearbook of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen for the year 1994, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht 1995, ISBN 3-525-85151-0 , Pp. 163-168.

Web links

• Literature by and about Peter Haasen in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Haasen-Kelly-Effect ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
2. ^ University of Göttingen, Institute for Materials Physics : Peter Haasen Prize