Hans-Joachim Güntherodt

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Hans-Joachim Güntherodt (born July 17, 1939 in Suhl ; † July 6, 2014 ) was a German physicist and founder of nanoscience at the University of Basel .

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Hans-Joachim Güntherodt (1939–2014) Phsiker, grave in the Witterswil cemetery
Grave in the Witterswil cemetery

Hans-Joachim Güntherodt, older brother of Gernot Güntherodt , obtained his diploma in physics from the ETH Zurich in 1963 and received his doctorate in 1967 also from the ETH Zurich with a thesis on the subject of the Hall coefficient and specific electrical resistance of liquid metal alloys . From 1973 to 2009 he was a full professor for experimental physics at the University of Basel. In the academic year 1986/87 he was dean of the Faculty of Philosophy and Natural Sciences and from 1994 to 1996 rector of the university. He was also a visiting scholar at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights and the Tokyo Institute of Technology.

From 2001 to 2006 he was head of the national research focus on nanotechnology of the Swiss National Science Foundation . He was an honorary doctorate from the University of Neuchâtel and in 2006 became honorary president of the NCCR (Nanoscale Science Basel) and the Swiss Institute for Nanosciences (SNI). He was also heavily involved in the phaenovum student research center in Lörrach Dreiländereck. He found his final resting place in the Witterswil cemetery .

Fonts

  • ed. with Roland Wiesendanger : Theory of STM and Related Scanning Probe Methods (= Scanning Tunneling Microscopy. Volume 3). Springer, Berlin 1993; 2nd edition 1996.

Web links

Commons : Hans-Joachim Güntherodt  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich 1955–1980. Festschrift for the 125th anniversary. Neue Zürcher Zeitung, Zurich 1980, p. 627.
  2. ↑ The university bids farewell to Hans-Joachim Güntherodt , website of the University of Basel, July 9, 2014, accessed on February 15, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Güntherodt, Hans-Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 17, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Suhl
DATE OF DEATH July 6, 2014