Helmut Eschrig
Helmut Eschrig (born July 2, 1942 in Thierfeld , † February 22, 2012 in Dresden ) was a German theoretical solid-state physicist.
Life
Eschrig studied physics at the TU Dresden with a diploma in 1969 and a doctorate in 1972. A second doctorate corresponding to a habilitation followed in 1992. 1970 to 1975 he was at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the TU Dresden and then at the Central Institute for Solid State Physics and Materials Research in Dresden , which after the fall of the Berlin Wall became the IFW ( Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden ), whose founding director was Eschrig in August 1991, as was its scientific director from 1998 to 2008. He was also director of the institute from 2004 for theoretical solid state physics at the IFW. From 1992 he held the chair for solid state physics at the TU Dresden and from 1992 to 1998 headed the working group of the Max Planck Society Theory of Complex and Correlated Electron Systems at the TU Dresden.
Act
Eschrig dealt in particular with density functional theory and its application in solid state physics (e.g. magnetism, strongly correlated systems), superconductivity and, for example, semimetals.
In 1983 he received the Max von Laue Medal from the Academy of Sciences of the GDR and in 2002 was awarded the Max Planck Research Prize for International Cooperation. He was a member of the Leopoldina (2000) and the Saxon Academy of Sciences (2000) in Leipzig. He was on the board of directors of the German Physical Society . Eschrig was a member of the Max Planck Society and on the scientific council of the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics in Halle (chaired 1996 to 2009), the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden and he was an external member of the Max -Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden.
From 2007 he was co-editor of the European Journal of Physics B and from 1992 to 2005 of Solid State Communications.
Fonts
- Optimized LCAO method and the electronic structure of extended systems , Akademie Verlag, Springer Verlag 1988
- The particle world of condensed matter , Edition am Gutenbergplatz, Leipzig 2005
- Fundamentals of Density Functional Theory , Teubner Verlag 1996, 2nd edition Edition am Gutenbergplatz, Leipzig 2003
- with M. Richter, I. Opahle Relativistic solid state calculations , in P.Schwerdtfeger (Ed.) Relativistic electronic structure , Elsevier 2004
- Topology and Geometry for Physics , Lecture Notes in Physics, Vol. 822, Springer 2011
Web links
- Works by and about Helmut Eschrig in the German Digital Library
- Website at the IFW in Dresden
- Helmut Eschrig on the website of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dr. Carola Langer: Prof. Dr. Helmut Eschrig receives Max Planck Research Award . idw - Science Information Service, December 9, 2002.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eschrig, Helmut |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 2, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Thierfeld |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 22, 2012 |
| Place of death | Dresden |