Hans-Eckhardt Schaefer

Hans-Eckhardt Schaefer (born October 8, 1939 in Waiblingen ) is a German physicist .

Life

He studied physics at the then Technical University of Stuttgart and at the Technical University of Berlin . At the beginning of his studies in Stuttgart he became a member of the local fraternity of Hilaritas . After a three-year academic stay at the Max Planck Institute for Coal Research in Mülheim an der Ruhr , he returned to Stuttgart University in 1971 for a doctorate . There he completed his habilitation in 1981 on "Lattice gaps and positron radiation in metals". At the Institute for Theoretical and Applied Physics (ITAP) he set up his own research group that concentrated on the application of a variety of solid-state physical measurement methods.

In 1986 he was appointed professor by the University of Stuttgart.

Thanks to the close cooperation between ITAP and the Max Planck Institute for Metal Research in Stuttgart-Büsnau, he was able to maintain very close cooperation with many foreign colleagues. This led to many guest stays at foreign research institutions as well as many foreign guests at the ITAP of the University of Stuttgart.

His field of work extends from the investigation of pure metals with the help of positron lifetime spectroscopy to the investigation of nanocrystalline materials and metallic glasses with various measuring methods.

In August 2010 he published a summary of the current state of knowledge about nanocrystalline materials "Nanoscience, The Science of the Small in Physics, Engineering, Chemistry, Biology and Medicine".

Appreciation

In 2001 he was awarded the Tammann commemorative coin by the Society for Materials Science for his outstanding scientific achievements .

Web links

• Literature by and about Hans-Eckhardt Schaefer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Award list of the Tammann commemorative coin