Georg Alefeld

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Georg Alefeld (born March 2, 1933 in Poppenlauer , Lower Franconia , † August 25, 1995 in Munich ) was a German physicist.

Career

Georg Alefeld studied technical physics at the Technical University of Munich , which he successfully completed in 1959. After his doctorate in 1961 as Dr. rer. nat. Alefeld was assistant at the laboratory for technical physics at the Technical University of Munich . In 1963 he went to the Johns Jay Hopkins Laboratory of General Atomics in La Jolla (California) as a research assistant . From 1967 to 1968 he worked at the Jülich nuclear research facility . After habilitation in 1968 at RWTH Aachen University , he was director of the Institute for Phase Transformations at the Institute for Solid State Research (IFF) in Jülich from 1969/70. From 1971 until his death in 1995 he was a professor at the Institute for Solid State Physics and Technical Physics at the Technical University of Munich.

He became known through his involvement in solid state physics, where he developed new insights into dislocation dynamics. He also researched the effects of hydrogen as a point defect in metals. Later he dealt with issues of applied thermodynamics and was able to improve heat pump cycles in particular. He was a co-founder of the Center for Applied Energy Research (ZAE Bayern).

honors and awards

In 1969 he was awarded the Physics Prize of the German Physical Society and was a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . In 1992 he was elected a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

source

  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar Online , Document P20823

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member entry by Georg Alefeld at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on February 3, 2016.