Armin Kirfel

Armin Kirfel (born June 2, 1943 in Bonn / Beuel) is a German physicist , mineralogist and crystallographer .

Kirfel studied physics from 1962 at the University of Bonn with a diploma in 1968 and a doctorate in 1971. From 1972 he worked at the Mineralogical-Petrological Institute in Bonn, 1973/74 for a research stay at the University of York and then assistant in Bonn. 1981/82 followed a research stay at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and 1983 he qualified as a professor in Bonn in crystallography. In 1984 he became a temporary professor in Bonn and from 1986 to 1991 he was an employee of the Saarland University at Hasylab in Hamburg and a private lecturer in Bonn. In 1991 he became professor for crystallography in Würzburg and in 1996 professor for crystallography and mineralogy in Bonn. In 2008 he retired.

In 2004 he was visiting scholar at Tokyo University of Science.

In 2009 he received the Carl-Hermann Medal as a recognition of his scientific life's work in the field of structural research with diffraction techniques for a variety of methodological developments and applications to problems of archeology, chemistry, mineralogy, pharmacy and in particular high-precision electron density distributions and anisotropic resonant X-ray scattering .

Web links

• Homepage, Steinmann Institute, Bonn