Herbert Gleiter

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Herbert Gleiter (born October 13, 1938 in Stuttgart ) is a German physicist and materials scientist and recipient of the Leibniz Prize .

Life

Herbert Gleiter completed his studies at the University of Stuttgart in 1966 with a doctorate in physics; He wrote his dissertation on the interaction of dislocations with coherent, strained, disordered and ordered particles . He then worked at the University of Göttingen and received various professorships, initially at the University of Bochum , Harvard University and at MIT .

From 1973 to 1994 he held the chair for materials science at Saarland University . He conducted research in Israel , at Bell Laboratories , the University of Wisconsin , Monash University , Tōhoku University , Beijing University and the University of New South Wales .

From 1994 he was a member of the board of the Karlsruhe Research Center with responsibility for basic research and new technologies . From 1998 to 2004 he was the managing director of the newly founded Institute for Nanotechnology at the Karlsruhe Research Center.

From 2007 to 2012 he was a member of the Presidium of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - National Academy of Sciences , which awarded him the Cothenius Medal in 2015 . In 2014 he was elected to the Academia Europaea .

meaning

As a materials scientist, Herbert Gleiter laid the foundations for modern nanotechnology . As early as 1981 he expressed the vision that with a reduction in grain sizes in crystalline substances, the interfaces would become increasingly decisive for the material properties. In 1982 he described this new class of materials as nanocrystalline.

Herbert Gleiter is today often referred to as one of the founders of nanotechnology due to his fundamental work in the field of nanomaterials .

According to the Scopus database, Gleiter had published 346 scientific papers by the beginning of September 2019 ; his Scopus- h index at this point was 71.

Honors

Gleiter was awarded the Leibniz Research Prize of the DFG in 1989 and the Saarland Order of Merit in 1992 . In addition, he received the Vinci of Excellence Award from the Hennessy Vuitton Foundation, the Max Planck Research Award (1993, together with Dieter Wolf , Argonne National Laboratory ), the gold medal of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS) in 1995 and the Heyn memorial coin of the German Society for Material Science DGM , 2000 and 2006 the Heisenberg and Humboldt Medal of the Humboldt Foundation, 2007 the gold medal of Acta Materialia and in 2009 the Robert Franklin Mehl Prize of The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS) . In 2008 he received the Von Hippel Award from the Materials Research Society , in 2009 the Blaise Pascal Medal from the European Academy of Sciences and in 2012 the Edward DeMille Cambell Award from the American Society for Metals (ASM). In 2019 he received the International Association of Advanced Materials Award .

He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (since 1998), the American National Academy of Engineering , the Indian National Academy and the European Academy of Sciences . The universities of Darmstadt, Münster and the ETH Zurich have awarded him an honorary doctorate .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Member entry by Herbert Gleiter at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on September 6, 2019.
  2. ^ A b c Alfred Nordmann: Invisible Origins: Herbert Gleiter and the contribution of material science. In: Nanotechnologies in Context. Institute for Philosophy, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 2006, accessed on September 5, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Jutta Schnitzer-Ungefug: Senate of the Leopoldina Academy elects Herbert Gleiter, Karlsruhe, as a new member of the Presidium. In: Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw). Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (idw), March 6, 2007, accessed on September 7, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Herbert Gleiter and the article on materials science (PDF) at www.philosophie.tu-darmstadt.de , accessed February 24, 2018
  5. ^ Gleiter, Herbert. In: Scopus. Elsevier BV, accessed September 6, 2019 .
  6. ^ Announcement of awards of the Saarland Order of Merit . In: Head of the State Chancellery (Ed.): Official Gazette of the Saarland . No. 4 . Saarbrücker Zeitung Verlag und Druckerei GmbH, Saarbrücken January 30, 1992, p. 65 ( uni-saarland.de [PDF; 241 kB ; accessed on June 8, 2017]).
  7. ↑ German Society for Material Science eV: Heyn memorial coin. Retrieved September 6, 2019 .
  8. ^ Acta Materialia Gold Medal Award Recipients. In: Acta Materialia Gold Medal. Acta Materialia, Inc., 2018, accessed September 7, 2019 .
  9. ^ Institute of Metals / Robert Franklin Mehl Award. In: TMS> Professional Development> Honors & Awards. The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society (TMS), 2019, accessed September 6, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Iris Oberdorf (PKM): KIT compact - monthly press releases. In: KIT - Strategic Development and Communication. Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), November 26, 2018, accessed on September 6, 2019 (German).
  11. ↑ Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study, City University of Hong Kong: Professor Herbert Gleiter receives 2019 International Association of Advanced Materials Award. In: HKIAS News. Hong Kong Institute for Advanced Study, City University of Hong Kong, May 21, 2019, accessed September 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Glider, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist, materials scientist, university professor and Leibniz Prize winner
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart