Gernot Heger
Gernot Wolfgang Heger (born July 30, 1943 ) is a German mineralogist and crystallographer . He was professor for crystallography at RWTH Aachen University and director of the institute for crystallography.
Life
Heger studied from 1963 to 1969 at the University of Tübingen and then got a job at the research reactor of the Karlsruhe nuclear research center . In 1972 he received his doctorate from the University of Tübingen with the dissertation Investigations on two-dimensional antiferromagnets .
From 1972 to 1973 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Crystallography at the University of Tübingen, then until 1974 at the University of Marburg with Erwin Hellner and finally again until 1987 at the Karlsruhe Nuclear Research Center with long-term stays abroad at the Laboratoire Léon-Brillouin in the Center d'Etude Nucléaire Saclay. In the meantime , Heger completed his habilitation in 1978 at the University of Marburg with the text: About the structural phase transitions of perovskite-like layer structures of the type (CnH2n + 1NH3) 2MeCl4 .
In 1987, Heger was appointed professor of physics and crystallography at the University of Paris-Süd and was appointed group leader for neutron single crystal diffraction at the Laboratoire Léon-Brillouin. Finally, in 1993, he moved to RWTH Aachen University, where he was taken on as a full professor for crystallography and appointed director of the Institute for Crystallography. In 2009 Heger retired.
At RWTH Aachen University and the institute's branch offices in Saclay, Jülich and Munich, Heger worked on crystal structure investigations with X-rays and synchrotron rays, and in particular with neutrons.
In 2011 he received the Carl Hermann Medal . Heger is a member of the Neutron Research Committee and was chairman of the German Society for Crystallography from 2000 to 2003 .
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Heger, Gernot |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Heger, Gernot Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mineralogist and crystallographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1943 |