Adolf Goetzberger
Adolf Goetzberger (born November 29, 1928 in Munich ) is a German physicist .
Life
Adolf Goetzberger worked in semiconductor physics in the first part of his professional life. In 1955 he received his doctorate in Munich on the crystallization of vapor-deposited antimony layers . He worked with the Nobel Prize winner and co-inventor of the transistor William Shockley in Palo Alto, California and at Bell Laboratories in Murray Hill, New Jersey.
In 1968 he returned to Germany and headed the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics in Freiburg. In 1971 he was appointed honorary professor at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Freiburg .
In 1981 he founded the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems in Freiburg, which quickly grew into one of the leading institutes for solar research. The preparations for this began five years earlier in 1976 with the invention and patenting of the fluorescence collector. His idea of agrophotovoltaics (agrovoltaics) was only up for patent 30 years later.
In 1983, Adolf Goetzberger was the first German researcher to receive the JJ Ebers Award from the American IEEE Electron Devices Society for his outstanding achievements in the development of the silicon field effect transistor. He also received the Baden-Württemberg Medal of Merit in 1989 and the Federal Cross of Merit, First Class, in 1992 . In 1993 he received the Achievement through Action Award from ISES, in 1995 he received an honorary doctorate from Uppsala University and the Farrington Daniels Award from ISES. This was followed in 1997 by the Karl Boer Medal, the Becquerel Prize and the William R. Cherry Award . In 2006 Solar World AG awarded him the Einstein Award 2006 and EUROSOLAR the European Solar Award . In 2009 he was awarded the European Inventor Award by the European Patent Office in the “Lifetime Achievement” category.
Publications
- Adolf Goetzberger: Harvest twice: Photovoltaics and agriculture can be combined , Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems. Lecture, PDF 27 pages 2 MB.
Web links
- Jörg Sutter : In conversation with Prof. Adolf Goetzberger. In: Sonnenenergie (magazine) . November 8, 2019 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birgit Augustin: Agrophotovoltaic systems - Sun above, grain below , Deutschlandfunk - " Background " from October 3, 2016
- ↑ EPO: European Inventor Award ( Memento of March 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
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| SURNAME | Goetzberger, Adolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 29, 1928 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |