Gregor Morfill

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Gregor Eugen Morfill (born July 23, 1945 in Oberhausen ) is a German physicist who works in basic astrophysical research and deals with complex plasmas and plasma medicine.

Live and act

Gregor Morfill moved to England in 1961. There he completed his school education and studied physics at Imperial College London from 1964 . In 1967 he graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree , in 1968 he received the diploma of the Imperial College (DIC) and in 1971 he was awarded a Ph.D. with his work Satellite studies of energetic particles above the atmosphere. PhD . He then went to the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching. In 1977 he was at the University of Heidelberg habilitation .

In 1975 he received a professorship at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg. In 1983 he directed the Theoretical Astronomy Program at the University of Arizona . In 1984 he became director at the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics.

Morfill is the author and co-author of over 500 scientific publications. In addition to his astrophysical work, Gregor Morfill makes important contributions to the subject of "dusty complex plasmas " (with application to space plasmas and the explanation of the structure of Saturn's rings ), to the discovery of plasma crystals as a solid state of aggregation of dusty plasmas (discovered in 1994) and to the microscopic analysis of the melting process in Plasma crystals. He deals with space plasmas with participation in experiments in the International Space Station (ISS), such as the experiment PKE-Nefedov (2001-2005) in cooperation with the Russian Space Agency and the Institute for High Energy Densities (IHED, JIHT) in Moscow, and with plasma applications in medicine such as in the treatment of chronic wounds. With Scheingraber he is the author of a popular science book on chaos theory .

Since 2011 he has been on the scientific advisory board of Bauman University in Moscow. In the same year he co-founded the company terraplasma in Garching near Munich , which develops devices and processes that use cold plasmas, among other things, for wound healing .

Awards

Fonts

  • X-ray and gamma astronomical observations and the problem of antimatter in the universe. Special lecture in the summer semester 1974 at the Technical University of Munich. Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching 1974.
  • Physics and chemistry in the primitive solar nebula. Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching 1983.
  • with Rosolino Buccheri (Ed.): Galactic astrophysics and gamma-ray astronomy. Reprinted from: Space science reviews. Vol. 36, No. 1-3. Reidel, Dordrecht, Boston 1983.
  • with Harald Atmanspacher: Introduction to the theory of deterministic chaos. Lecture in the summer semester 1986 at the University of Heidelberg. Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching 1986.
  • with Herbert Scheingraber: Chaos is everywhere ... and it works. Ullstein, Frankfurt am Main 1991, ISBN 3-550-06509-4 .
  • with Michael F. Sterzik: Evolution of protoplanetary disks with condensation and coagulation. Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching 1994, doi: 10.1006 / icar.1994.1162 .
  • with Alexei V. Ivlev, Uwe Konopka: Coagulation of Charged Microparticles in Neutral Gas and Charge-Induced Gel Tramsitions. In: Physical Review Letters. 89, article 195502, 2002, pp. 1-4 ( abstract ).
  • with Milenko Rubin-Zuzuc, Hermann Rothermel et al .: Highly Resolved Fluid Flows: "Liquid Plasmas" at the Kinetic Level. In: Physical Review Letters. 92, article 175004, 2004 ( abstract ).
  • with S. Nunomura, D. Samsonov, S. Zhdanov: Heat Transfer in a Two-Dimensional Crystalline Complex (Dusty) Plasma. In: Physical Review Letters. 95, article 025003, 2005 ( abstract ).
  • with Sergei A. Khrapak, Alexei V. Ivlev et al .: Critical Point in Complex Plasmas. In: Physical Review Letters. 96, article 015001, 2006 ( abstract ).
  • with Milenko Rubin-Zuzic, Alexei V. Ivlev et al .: Kinetic Development of Crystallization Fronts in Complex Plasmas . In: Nature Physics . 2, 2006, pp. 181-185 ( abstract ).
  • with VN Tsytovich, SV Vladimirov, HM Thomas: Elementary physics of complex plasmas . In: Lecture Notes in Physics. Volume 731. Springer, 2008.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ H. Thomas, GE Morfill, V. Demmel, J. Goree, B. Feuerbacher, D. Möhlmann: Plasma crystal: Coulomb Crystallization in a Dusty Plasma. In: Physical Review Letters. Volume 73, 1994, pp. 652-655.
  2. ↑ Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Gregor Morfill on the website of it company terraplasma
  3. ↑ Pulsars and cardiac fibrillation. MPG researcher Gregor Morfill received the first science award from the Stifterverband. ( Memento of October 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) BerliNews, December 20, 1998
  4. ↑ Honor for a physicist , communication from TU Berlin from May 16, 2003
  5. ↑ German scientist receives the highest award from the Russian Space Agency , notification from the German Aerospace Center of July 17, 2007, accessed on February 23, 2018
  6. ↑ From the laudation at the APS: For Pioneering, and seminal contributions to, the field of dusty plasmas, including work leading to the discovery of plasma crystals, to an explanation for the complicated structure of Saturn's rings, and to microgravity dusty plasma experiments conducted first on parabolic-trajectory flights and then on the International Space Station . Laudation for the Maxwell Prize at the APS with a short biography
  7. ↑ James Maxwell Prize for Gregor Morfill , communication from the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics from July 19, 2011.
personal data
SURNAME Morfill, Gregor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Morfill, Gregor Eugen; Morfill, Gregor E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Oberhausen