Albrecht Winnacker

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Albrecht Winnacker (born August 31, 1942 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German experimental physicist who specializes in solid-state physics and materials used in electrical engineering .

Life

Albrecht Winnacker attended the Taunus High School in Königstein im Taunus . He studied physics in Freiburg im Breisgau , Göttingen , Paris and Heidelberg , where he received his doctorate in 1970 ( Relaxation Phenomena and Nuclear Magnetic Resonance of 116In (T1 / 2 = 14s) Produced by Capture of Polarized Neutrons in the Indium III-V-Compounds ) . As a post-doctoral student he worked at the University of California, Berkeley from 1970 to 1972 , where he turned to his future field of work, the spectroscopy of defect centers in solids.

After returning to Heidelberg, he completed his habilitation there in 1976 and was appointed professor of experimental physics in 1980. In 1984/85 he did research as a visiting scientist in the research laboratories of IBM in San Jose, California, before joining the central research laboratories of Siemens AG in Erlangen in 1986 . There he was head of the Compound Semiconductors and Phosphors department. At the end of 1991 he accepted a professorship for materials in electrical engineering at the University of Erlangen .

After his retirement in 2009, he took over the post of founding director of the Center for Advanced Materials CAM at the University of Heidelberg , which focuses on the research of materials in organic electronics .

Albrecht Winnacker is a co-founder of SiCrystal AG and CrystAl-N GmbH. From 2001 to 2005 he was dean of the technical faculty at the University of Erlangen.

Albrecht Winnacker is a son of the long-standing chairman of the board of directors and supervisory board of Hoechst AG Karl Winnacker and a brother of the former president of the German Research Foundation Ernst-Ludwig Winnacker .

He is married and has three children.

Awards

  • In 1984/85 he was appointed visiting scientist of the IBM research laboratories.
  • In 2004 he became a corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences , and since 2012 a full member.
  • 2004 member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering acatech .
  • 2004 Honorary Professor at the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Heidelberg, since 2010 Senior Professor at the University of Heidelberg.

Fonts

Approx. 290 publications in international refereed journals, including:

  • Albrecht Winnacker, "Materials research and industrial demand using the example of electronic materials". In: Höcker, H. (Ed.): Materials as a motor for innovations, Stuttgart: Fraunhofer IRB-Verlag, 2008 (acatech DISKUTIERT), pp. 47–52
  • Albrecht Winnacker, "The technical mastery of the world of the smallest and its consequences". In Jens Kulenkampff & Gunther Wanke (eds.), On The Limits of Science and Research: Five Lectures. Verlag Universitätsbund Erlangen-Nürnberg EV (2005)
  • Albrecht Winnacker, "Physics of Maser and Laser", Bibliographical Institute, Mannheim / Vienna / Zurich 1984
  • Albrecht Winnacker (Ed. Together with Gisbert zu Putlitz and EW Weber), "Atomic Physics IV", Plenum Press New York / London 1974

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholar's Calendar, 2006
  2. ^ Press release from Heidelberg University of March 21, 2013
  3. ↑ Crystal-N GmbH
  4. ↑ Dechema press release of December 6, 2011
  5. ^ Press release from Heidelberg University of May 3, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Winnacker, Albrecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German experimental physicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 31, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main