Manfred Rühle

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Manfred Rühle (born March 15, 1938 in Stuttgart ) is a German physicist. Until his retirement in 2005 he was director of the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research . His special scientific achievements lie in the application and further development of electron microscopy .

Live and act

Rühle studied physics and mathematics in Stuttgart and Hamburg and graduated from the University of Stuttgart in 1962 . In 1966 he received his doctorate. In his dissertation he was already investigating radiation-induced defects in face-centered cubic metals and was already working on transmission electron microscopy (TEM). After research stays in the USA in 1970/71 at the Argonne National Laboratory and from 1986 to 1989 as a professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara , he became director of the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research and a scientific member of the Max Planck Society in 1988 . Shortly after German reunification, he co-founded the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics in Halle (Saale) and was one of its interim directors from 1991 to 1993.

His scientific work focused on investigations into the structure and composition of internal interfaces in different material systems. These two-dimensional defects have a great influence on many, also technically relevant, material properties. The combination of materials research and microstructure analysis with electron microscopy was unique in his work.

From 1994 to 1997 Professor Rühle was President of the German Society for Electron Microscopy and from 2001 to 2004 Chairman of the German Society for Material Science . He has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 1995 .

Over 80 doctoral students received their doctorates under Rühle. More than 15 of his employees have received C3 and C4 professorships.

Awards

  • 1969 Masing Prize of the German Society for Material Science
  • 1999 Heyn commemorative coin of the German Society for Material Science
  • 2002 Distinguished Life Member of the American Ceramic Society
  • 2007 Lee Hsun Lecture Award from the Institute of Metal Research of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

Publications (selection)

  • F. Ernst and M. Rühle (Eds.): High Resolution Imaging and Spectrometry of Materials. Springer Verlag, Berlin / Heidelberg (2003)
  • G. Gutekunst, J. Mayer, V. Vitek, M. Rühle: Atomic Structure of Epitaxial Nb / Al2O3 Interfaces: I. Coherent Regions. Phil. Mag. A 75 (1997) pp. 1329-1355
  • G. Gutekunst, J. Mayer, V. Vitek and M. Rühle: Atomic Structure of Epitaxial Nb / Al2O3 Interfaces: II. Misfit Dislocations. Phil. Mag. A 75 (1997) pp. 1357-1382
  • D. Korn, G. Elssner, RM Cannon, and M. Rühle: Fracture Properties of Interfacially Doped Nb-Al2O3 Bicrystals: I, Fracture Characteristics. Acta Materialia 50 (2002) pp. 3881-3901
  • RM Cannon, D. Korn, G. Elssner, and M. Rühle: Fracture Properties of Interfacially Doped Nb-Al2O3 Bicrystals: II, Relation of Interfacial Bonding, Chemistry and Local Plasticity. Acta Materialia 50 (2002) pp. 3903-3925

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Professor Manfred Rühle retired ( Memento from June 12, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), press release from March 23, 2005
  2. ↑ Editorial: Max Planck Institute for Metals Research 90 Years of Excellence in Materials Science . In: Int. J. Mat. Res. (Formerly: Z. Metallkd.) . tape 102 , no. 7 , 2011 (English, estatedocbox.com ).
  3. ^ Lee Hsun Lecture Award. imr.cas.cn, accessed on October 6, 2018 (English, topic: Relations between Interfacial Structure and Properties of Ceramic Materials ).
personal data
SURNAME Rühle, Manfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and scientific member of the Max Planck Society
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart