Gerd Schön

Gerd Schön (born April 14, 1948 in Karlsruhe ) is a German physicist .

Career

In 1966 he began studying physics at what was then the University of Karlsruhe . He had to interrupt this in 1967/68 for military service . In 1971 he moved to the University of Dortmund ; there he received his physics diploma in 1972 . From 1973 to 1976 he did his doctorate on the subject of Propagating Collective Modes in Superconductors . From 1976 to 1982 he was an assistant at the University of Karlsruhe, where he joined in 1981 with the theme of Nonequilibrium Superconductivity habilitated .

Between 1995 and 1997 he was visiting professor at the Helsinki University of Technology for seven months .

Since 1991 he has held a chair at the Institute for Solid State Physics at the University of Karlsruhe and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) that emerged from it , and since 1998 he has been working group leader at the Institute for Nanotechnology of the former Research Center Karlsruhe and today part of KIT.

He specializes in theoretical solid state physics, superconductors , electron transport in nanostructures, and quantum information .

Awards

In 1989 he received the Walter Schottky Prize together with Ulrich Eckern and Wilhelm Zwerger . In 1995 the Academy of Finland awarded him the Alexander von Humboldt Prize. In 2000 he was awarded the Heinrich Hertz Prize by the University of Karlsruhe and Badenwerk . In 2011 he received the Fritz London Memorial Prize .

Web links

• Homepage of Gerd Schön on the website of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
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