Bernd Matthias
Bernd Teo Matthias (born June 8, 1918 in Frankfurt am Main ; † October 27, 1980 ) was an American physicist who dealt with superconductivity .
Matthias received his doctorate in physics from the ETH Zurich in 1943 , where he continued his research for four years. From 1947 he went to the USA at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and from 1948 to Bell Laboratories . From 1949 to 1951 he was also Assistant Professor at the University of Chicago and from 1961 Professor of Physics at the University of California, San Diego . From 1962 to 1966 he was director of the Institute for the Study of Matter, which he founded, and from 1966 Associate Director and 1971 to 1980 Director of the Institute for Pure and Applied Physical Sciences. From 1971 to 1980 he was also at Los Alamos National Laboratory . Matthias has been working on superconductivity since 1949 at the University of Chicago and discovered almost a thousand superconducting substances.
Since 1965 he was a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . In 1970 he received the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize of the American Physical Society and in 1979 their International Prize for New Materials (the first was awarded to Theodore Geballe , with whom Matthias also worked).
The Bernd T. Matthias Prize for Superconducting Materials is named after him.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Jean-Philippe Chenaux: Un physicien américain [Bernd T. Matthias] à Dorigny - La supraconductivité à l'origine d'une véritable révolution technologique. In: Gazette de Lausanne. May 27, 1977, accessed April 30, 2018 (French).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Matthias, Bernd |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Matthias, Bernd Teo (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 8, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 27, 1980 |