Alexander M. Bradshaw

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Alexander Marian Bradshaw CBE (born July 12, 1944 in Bushey , Great Britain ) is a British physicist .

Life

Bradshaw studied chemistry at Queen Mary College, University of London and received his PhD in physical chemistry in 1969. In 1974 he completed his habilitation at the Institute for Physical Chemistry at the Technical University of Munich . From 1976 to 1998 Bradshaw worked at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin. There he was appointed scientific member and director of the institute in 1980 as head of the newly established department of surface physics. In addition, from 1981 to 1985 and from 1988 to 1989 he was scientific director of the Berlin electron storage ring company for synchrotron radiation .

Bradshaw was president of the German Physical Society from 1998 to 2000 , then its vice-president until 2002. From 1999 to 2008 he was scientific director and chairman of the scientific management of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics . Bradshaw has been honorary professor for experimental physics at the Technical University of Berlin since 1997 (currently exempted), and since 2000 also at the Technical University of Munich. Since December 2008 Bradshaw has been working again at the Fritz Haber Institute as an emeritus .

Bradshaw is co-founder and former editor-in-chief of the New Journal of Physics and a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , the Academia Europaea , the German Academy of Science and Engineering (Acatech) , the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (since 2002) and the Royal Society London.

Honors and prizes

Bradshaw received the Max Planck Research Award in 1994 (together with Philip Woodruff , University of Warwick ) and in 2001 the medal of the European Physical Society for Public Understanding of Physics. He is an honorary doctorate from the University of London and an honorary member of the American Institute of Physics . He was honored with the 2007 Rudolf Jaeckel Prize from the German Vacuum Society (DVG). Also in 2007 he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II for his Europe-wide coordination of fusion research . In March 2012, Alexander Bradshaw was made an honorary member by the German Physical Society .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Alexander M. Bradshaw (with picture and CV) at the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina , accessed on July 1, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Bradshaw, Alexander M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bradshaw, Alexander Marian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British physicist, Max Planck Director
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Bushey , UK