Bertram Batlogg
Bertram Batlogg (* 1950 in Bludenz , Austria ) is an Austrian physicist and university professor.
Batlogg studied physics at the ETH Zurich and in 1979 for a work on mixed- valent compounds rare earth doctorate . From 1980 to 2000 he worked in New Jersey at Bell Laboratories , one of the most important research centers for applied solid-state physics , first as a researcher, then as a group leader. He received international awards for his work there in the field of superconductivity. In the 1990s, the results achieved in his working group (albeit partially falsified, see below), especially in the field of high-temperature superconductivity, were among the most spectacular in the entire discipline.
In September 2000 he switched to the chair for solid state physics at ETH Zurich. He has been retired since 2016.
In 2002 a member of his former group at Bell Labs, Jan Hendrik Schön , was found guilty of multiple scientific falsification. In the following, seven articles in the journal Nature that Batlogg had co-authored were withdrawn. An investigative commission set up by Bell Labs came to the conclusion that Batlogg was not responsible for the falsifications of his employee and that he himself could not be proven that he was aware of it, but demanded more responsibility from co-authors of scientific publications for the future. In the public debate it was also viewed critically that a renowned experimental physicist, who had boasted of the results in many lectures, never wanted to see the experiments himself.
Batlogg is the great-grandson of the Montafon freedom fighter Johann Josef Batlogg .
Awards (selection)
- 1979: ETH medal and prize
- 1986: Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society
- 1997: Bernd T. Matthias Prize
- 2000: David Adler Lectureship Award from the American Physical Society
- 2000: Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- 2004: Vorarlberg Science Prize
Web links
source
- ↑ Max Rauner: Summiteer of the Quantum World , Die Zeit 50, 2001
- ^ People - Physics of New Materials. ETH Zurich, accessed on June 26, 2020 (English).
- ↑ Paul M. Grant: scientific credit and credibility (PDF; 391 kB) Nature materials 1, 2002
- ↑ Marco Evers and Gerald Traufetter: Der Ikarus der Physik , Der Spiegel from October 7, 2002
- ↑ Vorarlberg Science Prize 2004 to Bertram Batlogg. In: derstandard.at. February 2, 2004, accessed January 17, 2018 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Batlogg, Bertram |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian physicist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bludenz , Austria |