Albert Schmid (physicist)
Albert Schmid , (born November 9, 1929 in Biberach an der Riss ; † January 31, 1998 ) was a German theoretical solid-state physicist and university professor at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).
Schmid went to school in Biberach and studied physics at the TH Karlsruhe with a diploma in 1956. At that time he worked experimentally in atomic and plasma physics and received his doctorate in Karlsruhe in 1960. He then worked as an assistant in the theoretical physics group at the TH Karlsruhe and completed his habilitation in 1966 on the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau theory of superconductors. 1964/65 he was at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign with John Bardeen and 1968/69 at the University of Helsinki. In 1970 he became a full professor at the newly founded University of Dortmund and from 1976 he was professor in Karlsruhe, where he founded the Institute for Condensed Matter and headed it until his retirement in 1994.
1979/80 he was visiting scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara , 1983/84 at the University of Copenhagen (Ørsted Institute) and 1998/99 at the University of Florida in Gainesville.
He dealt with dynamic critical fluctuations in superconductors , the kinetic theory of superconductors in non-equilibrium, quantum mechanics of dissipative systems and electron transport in disordered systems (which also made him a pioneer in mesoscopic physics).
In 1993 he received the Fritz London Memorial Prize .
Gerd Schön is one of his doctoral students .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Acknowledgment of the London Prize 1993 ( Memento from March 8, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (pdf)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Schmid, Albert |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 9, 1929 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Biberach an der Riss |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 31, 1998 |