Frank Pobell

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Frank Pobell (born August 9, 1937 in Berlin ) is a German physicist, science manager and author and former president of the Leibniz Association . His specialty is matter at the lowest temperatures and the strongest magnetic fields.

Live and act

Pobell studied physics at the University of Munich from 1957 to 1962 . In 1965 he was at the Technical University of Munich with a thesis on Mössbauer effect in superconductors doctorate and in 1969 also at the Technical University of Munich with work on superfluid helium habilitation . 1962–1966 he was a research assistant at the Commission for Low Temperature Research of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , then until 1969 at the Technical University of Munich and then until 1971 at Cornell University , Ithaca , USA. After his return he was group leader at the Jülich nuclear research facility from 1971 and director at the Institute for Solid State Research from 1975 to 1983. At the same time he was full professor for experimental physics at the University of Cologne from 1975 to 1983 . From 1983 to 1997 he was Professor of Experimental Physics at the University of Bayreuth . He then researched and taught until his retirement in 2003 as a professor for solid state physics at low temperatures at the TU Dresden .

Pobell has worked as a visiting professor at Technion Haifa , the National Physical Laboratory Delhi , the Kapiza Institute Moscow , the University of Tokyo , the University of Florida and the Helsinki University of Technology .

In his scientific work, Pobell first dealt with the properties of superfluid helium. Since 1975 the generation and measurement of extremely low temperatures and the behavior of matter at these temperatures have been in the foreground. In doing so he has repeatedly generated the lowest temperatures to which matter has been cooled. His low temperature world record of only 1.5 microkelvin above absolute zero (−273.15 ° C) set at the University of Bayreuth is still in place today.

From 1996 to 2003 Pobell was scientific director and spokesman for the board of the Dresden-Rossendorf research center . From 2002 to 2004 he headed the establishment of the Dresden High Field Laboratory, a facility in which the highest pulsed magnetic fields can be generated.

Among the scientific policy activities in many national and international bodies, Pobell's work as Vice President of the International Union for Pure and Applied Physics from 1990 to 1996 and as President of the Leibniz Association from 1998 to 2001 are particularly noteworthy.

Pobell is married and has three children from his first marriage.

Awards

Pobell has been a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences since 1999 and of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (Acatech) since 2002 .

  • 1982 Award from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
  • 1988 Emil Warburg Prize from the Emil Warburg Foundation
  • 1990 Academy scholarship from the Volkswagen Foundation
  • 1992 Lise-Meitner / Alex.v. Humbodt-Preis d. Israel Ministry f. Knowledge. u. technology
  • 1996 Gold medal from the city of Bayreuth
  • 2003 Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
  • 2007 Decoration of Honor from the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences

Fonts

  • About 230 publications in international scientific journals
  • Co-editor of the Journal of Low Temperature Physics , Springer-Publishing New York 1992–2005
  • Monograph Matter and Methods at Low Temperatures , Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York 1992 (1st edition), 1996 (2nd edition), 2007 (3rd edition)
  • Encounters in the Pirin Mountains , Projects Verlag, Halle 2009, ISBN 978-3-86634-668-0 ; in Bulgarian: Roboread Publishing House, Sofia 2011, ISBN 978-954-92436-6-6
  • The absolute zero point - a travel report , Projekt Verlag, Halle 2010, ISBN 978-3-86237-139-6

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hzdr.de: High honor for physicists from Rossendorf , February 12, 2004, accessed on January 21, 2014.
  2. ^ "Matter and Methods at Low Temperatures", Springer Verlag (see publications)
  3. ↑ Horst Meyer: "A Tribute to Frank Pobell." In: Journal of Physics, Vol. 146, p. 437 (2007).
  4. ↑ Frank Pobell: “Das Hochfeldlabor Dresden” , Physik Journal Vol. 4, p. 25 (2005).
  5. ↑ leibniz-gemeinschaft.de: Former Presidents
personal data
SURNAME Pobell, Frank
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 9, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin