Hans-Joachim Bunge

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Hans-Joachim Bunge (born July 29, 1929 in Zerbst ; † November 28, 2004 in Clausthal-Zellerfeld ) was a German mineralogist and crystallographer .

Career

After graduating from high school in 1946, Bunge completed an apprenticeship as a precision mechanic and from 1947 studied physics at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg with his doctorate in 1955. After that, he was at the Institute for Crystal Structure Research of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Berlin until 1968 , where he particularly focused dealt with texture analysis with X-rays, and then at the Central Institute for Solid State Physics and Materials Science of the Academy of Sciences in Dresden. In 1974 he tried to escape from the GDR with his wife and son. He was imprisoned and ransomed by the Federal Republic in 1975 . In 1975/76 he was a DFG fellow in Clausthal and Berkeley . In 1976 he succeeded Günther Wassermann as professor and director of the Institute for Metallurgy and Metal Physics at Clausthal University of Technology . In 1997 he retired and was then at the Institute for Physics and Physical Technologies in Clausthal. Before his death, he also carried out a DFG-funded project at HASYLAB in Hamburg.

He dealt in particular with texture analysis (crystal texture of multi-crystalline materials such as steel), about which he wrote a standard work. Around 500 scientific publications come from him.

In 1965, independently of RJ Roe, he solved an important mathematical problem of texture analysis (pole figure inversion via development according to harmonic series).

In 2003 he received the Carl Hermann Medal . In 1979 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Metz . In 1993 he became an honorary professor at the Beijing Polytechnic University and in 1995 an honorary member of the Czech Society for Metal Science and in 2002 an honorary member of the Texture Society of India.

From 1986 to 2003 he was editor of the journal Textures and Microstructures . Since 1978 he was a member of the International Committee of the International Conference on Textures of Materials (ICOTOM).

Fonts

  • Mathematical methods of texture analysis, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag 1969
    • English translation: Texture analysis in materials science: mathematical methods, London: Butterworths 1982, Reprint Göttingen: Cuvillier 1993
  • with C. Esling: Quantitative Texture Analysis, Oberursel: DGM, 1982
  • Experimental Techniques of Texture Analysis, Oberursel: DGM 1986.
  • Theoretical Methods of Texture Analysis. Oberursel: DGM 1987.
  • with C. Esling: Advances and Applications of Quantitative Texture Analysis. Oberursel: DGM 1991
  • with S. Siegesmund, W. Skrotzki, K. Weber: Textures of Geological Materials. Oberursel: DGM 1994.

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personal data
SURNAME Bunge, Hans-Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mineralogist and crystallographer
DATE OF BIRTH July 29, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Zerbst
DATE OF DEATH November 28, 2004
Place of death Clausthal-Zellerfeld