Peter R. Sahm

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Peter R. Sahm (born September 7, 1934 in Berlin ; † December 19, 2013 ) was a German engineer and professor for foundries at RWTH Aachen University . From 1979 to 2002 he was director of the Foundry Institute at RWTH Aachen University.

In 1982 Peter Sahm was the scientific coordinator of the first German space mission Spacelab D1. In 1986 he was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize . In 1991 he received the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany. In 1995 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Hanover and a foreign member of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences .

literature

  • Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2014. 26th edition, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and Boston 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-030256-1 (print), ISBN 978-3-11-030257-8 (print & online), Volume 3, pp. 3088-3089
  • Obituary. In: Aachener Zeitung / Aachener Nachrichten. January 11, 2014

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Rainer Jansen; Peter R. Sahm: Materials research under weightlessness . In: Physics in Our Time . 16, No. 4, August, pp. 101-109. doi : 10.1002 / piuz.19850160401 .