Ekhard Salje

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Ekhard Salje (born October 26, 1946 in Hanover ) is a German-British mineralogist and crystallographer .

Career

Salje studied at the University of Hanover with a doctorate in 1971 (polar and lattice dynamic properties of ferroelectric KIO 3 ) and became professor for crystallography there in 1977 . In 1985 he went to Cambridge University, where he became Professor of Mineral Physics in 1992. From 1998 to 2008 he headed the Faculty of Earth Sciences at Cambridge. From 2001 to 2008 he was President of Clare Hall College.

Salje deals theoretically (including large-scale numerical simulation ) and experimentally with microstructures in crystals such as interfaces of twin structures and radiation damage in crystals, changes in elastic behavior at surfaces and due to instabilities at interfaces. Together with colleagues, he discovered superconducting twin interfaces in doped tungsten (VI) oxide .

He was co-author of a Royal Society report on nuclear waste.

Salje was visiting professor in Japan, China, Bilbao, Paris, Grenoble, Le Mans, at the Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Natural Sciences in Leipzig and he was an Ulam Fellow at the Los Alamos National Laboratory . He also chaired the Cambridge – MIT Institute (CMI) program committee.

In 1994 he became a member of the Leopoldina and received the Abraham Gottlob Werner Medal . In 2006 he received the Agricola Medal, in 1998 the Schlumberger Medal, in 2002 the Ernst Ising Prize and in 2000 the Humboldt Research Prize . He also headed the British section of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. In 1996 he became a Fellow of the Royal Society . In 2006 he received the Federal Cross of Merit . He is a Knight of the Order of the Palmes Academiques . In 2010 he became a member of the Royal Academy of Art and Science in Barcelona. In 2001 he became an Honorary Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge.

Honors

2007: Winner of the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class

Fonts

  • E. Salje: The piezoelectric and electro-optical properties of the ferroelectric substance KIO 3 . In: Journal of Crystallography . tape 136 , no. 1-6 , 1972, pp. 135-143 , doi : 10.1524 / zkri.1972.136.16.135 ( PDF ).
  • Published by: Polarons and bipolarons in high-Tc superconductors and related materials, Cambridge University Press 1995
  • Phase transitions in ferroelastic and co-elastic crystals: an introduction for mineralogists, material scientists and physicists, Cambridge University Press 1990
  • Editor: Physical Properties and Thermodynamic Behavior of Minerals, Dordrecht 1988

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Ekhard KH Salje (with picture) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on February 21, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Salje, Ekhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British mineralogist and crystallographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover