Michael Kühne (physicist)

Michael Kühne (born March 26, 1949 in Celle ) is a German physicist and metrologist.

Life

Kühne studied mathematics and physics at the Technical University of Hanover and the Technical University of Berlin . He graduated in 1973 in Hanover , where he joined the Corps Alemannia-Thuringia in 1968 . In 1979 he became a member of the Corps Normannia Berlin . Funded by the German National Academic Foundation , he went to Harvard University for a research stay . From 1974 to 1977 he was a research assistant at the Institute for Plasma Physics at the TU Hannover . After graduating as Dr. rer. nat. In 1977 he moved to the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt as a federal civil servant . Kuehne worked on the construction of the PTB laboratory for vacuum ultraviolet - radiometry with the electron storage ring BESSY, which he headed from the 1986th In 1991, Kühne switched to thermometry and took over the management of the temperature and heat department. He completed his habilitation in Hanover in 1992 and became a private lecturer . He has been an adjunct professor since 1996 .

In 2001, Kühne moved from Berlin to Braunschweig to take over the management of the executive committee. Member of the Presidium since 2003, he has been responsible for international cooperation between the national metrology institutes of 33 European countries and the Institute for Reference Materials and Measurements (IRMM) of the European Commission . It is about the further development and dissemination of the International System of Units (SI) . Kühne is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics (London) and co-editor of the journal Measurement Science and Technology . From 2007 to 2012 he was the first German director of the Bureau International des Poids et Mesures in Sèvres .

Web links

• Literature by and about Michael Kühne in the catalog of the German National Library
• Michael Kühne on the website of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 108/910.