Jürgen Schneider (physicist)

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Jürgen Schneider (born November 25, 1931 in Berlin ; † March 26, 2012 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German physicist and university professor and inventor of the white light-emitting diode (LED, 1995).

Schneider left his hometown Berlin during World War II due to the bombing raids there and attended the humanistic grammar school of the Birklehof boarding school in Hinterzarten , where he passed his Abitur. From 1951 he studied physics at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg in 1951 , where he also received his habilitation in 1967. Until his retirement in 1996, Scheider was head of the materials research department at the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics (Fraunhofer IAF) and a member of the teaching staff at the Faculty of Physics at the University of Freiburg.

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  1. ↑ a b CHIP , issue 5, 2019, p. 35
  2. ↑ Patent application WO9750132 : Light-emitting semiconductor element with luminescence conversion element . Registered on June 26, 1997 , published on December 31, 1997 , Applicants: Klaus Höhn, Ulrike Reeh, Peter Schlotter, Rolf Schmidt, Jürgen Schneider, Siemens AG , Norbert Stath, Günther Waitl, inventors: Klaus Höhn, Ulrike Reeh, Peter Schlotter , Rolf Schmidt, Jürgen Schneider, Norbert Stath, Günther Waitl. ‌
  3. ↑ Obituary for the father of the white LED. On the death of Professor Jürgen Schneider , Tom's Networking, accessed on April 5, 2019.

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SURNAME Schneider, Jürgen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 26, 2012
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau