Harald Fuchs (physicist)
Harald Heinz Fuchs (* 15. April 1951 in Dudweiler , Saarland ) is a German physicist with the work focusing on scanning probe microscopy , nanobiotechnology and self-organization techniques.
Life
Fuchs studied physics at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken from 1971 to 1977 and completed his studies with a diploma thesis in theoretical physics under Günther Meißner . Parallel to working at the Physiological Institute of Saarland University ( membrane research ), he began his doctoral thesis at the Institute for Materials Physics at Saarland University with Herbert Gleiter , which he completed in 1982 with a topic on nanocrystalline systems . After an assistantship at the same institute, a post-doctoral fellowship followed in 1984 at the IBM research laboratory in Rüschlikon near Zurich in the group of Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer . From 1985 to 1993 he worked in a research department at BASF AG , Ludwigshafen am Rhein .
In 1993 he took a call to a professor and director at the Physics Institute of the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster on. There he made a significant contribution to the development of nanosciences and is co-founder of the Center for Nanosciences ( CeNTech ) in Münster, of which he is the scientific director. In June 2015, he received an honorary professorship at Nanjing Tech University in Nanjing, China, for his research achievements in the field of nanotechnology.
Since 2004 he has been a member of the Institute for Nanotechnology at the Research Center Karlsruhe .
Act
Fuchs' scientific work focuses on interdisciplinary research projects in the nanosciences, especially scanning probe microscopy and self-organization techniques. He has received two research awards (including the Philip Morris Research Award 1994).
He is the author and co-author of over 450 scientific publications, co-editor of more than ten specialist books, more than 500 conference papers and over 30 patent applications.
He is a co-founder of two start-up companies in the field of nanotechnology , a member of several scientific societies and an elected member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , the German Academy of Science and Engineering acatech and the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World .
In 2009 he received the Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class and the Friedrich Emich plaque from the "Austrian Society for Analytical Chemistry".
Fonts
- Scanning probe microscopy. In: Bergmann-Schaefer: Textbook of Experimental Physics. Volume 3: Optics. 10th edition. de Gruyter, 2004, ISBN 3-11-017081-7 , pp. 1133-1159.
- with H. Hölscher, A. Schirmeisen: Scanning Probe Microscopy. In: Encyclopedia of Materials: Science and Technology. Elsevier, 2005, ISBN 0-08-043152-6 , pp. 1-12.
- Nanotechnology opportunity or risk? ( Memento of February 7, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) In: Akademie Journal. 1, 2004, pp. 48–54 (PDF file; 212 kB)
Web links
- Literature by and about Harald Fuchs in the catalog of the German National Library
- Harald Fuchs on the website of the University of Münster (PDF file; 25 kB)
- Harald Fuchs' working group on the website of the University of Münster
Individual evidence
- ↑ Honorary Professorship Conferring Ceremony on Prof. Harald Fuchs from University of Munster website of Nanjing Tech University. Retrieved March 27, 2018.
- ↑ Fuchs, Harald Website of the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World, April 21, 2015, accessed on March 27, 2018.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fuchs, Harald |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Fuchs, Harald Heinz |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 15, 1951 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dudweiler , Saarland |