Manuel Cardona

Manuel Cardona (born September 7, 1934 in Barcelona ; † July 2, 2014 in Stuttgart ) was a Spanish physicist and director at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research (MPI-FKF) in Stuttgart.

Life

After studying physics at the University of Barcelona , which he finished in 1955, Manuel Cardona received a scholarship at Harvard University the following year . During this stay his studies on the dielectric properties of various materials in connection with silicon and germanium began . In 1959 he worked at the RCA Laboratories in Zurich (Switzerland), from 1961 in the laboratory of the RCA company in the United States. From 1964 he continued his work at Brown University , Rhode Island (USA). In 1966 he became a Sloan Research Fellow . In 1971 he became a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society and was founding director at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart .

Cardona published almost 1,300 scientific papers between 1958 and 2008. In the 1980s and 1990s he was one of the most frequently cited physicists in the world.

Awards, prizes and memberships

• 1964 Fellow of the American Physical Society .
• 1969 Guggenheim Fellowship .
• 1984 Corresponding member of the Reial Acadèmia de Ciències i Arts de Barcelona , Spain.
• 1984 Frank Isakson Prize from the American Physical Society.
• 1987 Member of the National Academy of Sciences , USA.
• 1987 Large cross by Alfonso X el Sabio , Spain .
• 1988 Premio Príncipe de Asturias de Investigación Científica y Técnica in the field of applied physics (together with Marcos Moshinsky ).
• 1991 member of the Academia Europaea .
• 1994 Max Planck Research Prize (together with Eugene E. Haller ).
• 1995 Corresponding member of the Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales , Spain.
• 2003 Matteucci Medal from the Accademia Nazionale delle Scienze , Italy.
• 2003 Foreign member of the Mexican Academy of Sciences .
• 2004 Blaise Pascal Medal from the European Academy of Sciences .
• 2008 External member of the Accademia dei Lincei .
• 2009 Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada .
• 2011 Vernadsky Medal of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences .
• 2012 Paul Klemens Award from the International Conference on Phonon Scattering in Condensed Matter .
• 2012 José Federico Leloir Award, Buenos Aires.

Manuel Cardona also received 11 honorary doctorates between 1985 and 2010.

Publications

• Manuel Cardona: Modulation Spectroscopy , Academic Press, 1969, ISBN 978-0126077711 .
• Manuel Cardona, Gernot Güntherodt , Roberto Merlin: Scattering in Solids I-IX , Springer, Berlin, ISBN 3-540-11513-7 .
• Peter Y. Yu, Manuel Cardona: Fundamentals of Semiconductors. Physics and Materials Properties , Springer, Berlin, four editions ISBN 978-3-642-00709-5 .
• Pere Bonnin: Manuel Cardona i Castro, Fundació Catalana per a la Recerca, Barcelona, ​​1998, ISBN 84-89570-18-3 (in Catalan).
• Interview: Manuel Cardona, in: Torsten Eßer / Tilbert D. Stegmann (eds.). Catalonia's return to Europe 1976-2006, LIT Verlag Berlin 2007, pp. 157-160, ISBN 978-3-8258-0283-7 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Manuel Cardona in the catalog of the German National Library
• Obituary notice and condolence book of the Max Planck Institute for Manuel Cardona. fkf.mpg.de, July 2014. 
• Marvin L. Cohen, Francisco de la Cruz, Lothar Ley, Miles V. Klein, Michael Thewalt and Peter Y. Yu: Biographical Memoirs: Manuel Cardona. National Academy of Sciences, 2016 (English). 
• Klaus Ensslin and Luis Viña (Eds.): Manuel Cardona. Memories and Reminiscences . Springer, 2016, ISBN 978-3-319-20342-3 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-319-20343-0 (English).

Individual evidence

1. ^ Publications of Manuel Cardona. Academia Europaea, accessed January 7, 2016 (PDF file). 
2. ↑ 1,000 Most Cited Physicists, 1981-June 1997. Leiden University, Lorentz Institute for Theoretical Physics, accessed on January 7, 2016 (English, PDF file).