Siegfried Hunklinger
Siegfried Hunklinger (born August 25, 1939 in Hochberg) is a German physicist .
Life
It was 1969 at the Technical University of Munich with a thesis on der Waals forces van between macroscopic bodies doctorate . 1977 followed the habilitation .
Since 1982 he has been a professor at the University of Heidelberg , first at the Institute for Applied Physics, then at the Kirchhoff Institute for Physics, which he founded together with Karlheinz Meier in 1999. He mainly worked in the low-temperature physics of solids, u. a. in the clarification of the so-called "two-level centers" . From 2005 to 2011 he was a member of the three-party Ombudsman for Science of the German Research Foundation (DFG).
One of his students is Stefan Hell (Diploma 1987, PhD 1990), who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2014.
Awards
In 1977 he received the Walter Schottky Prize for Solid State Physics from the German Physical Society (DPG), endowed with 15,000 euros, and in 1999 the Stern-Gerlach Medal from the DPG for his experimental work in the field of physics of amorphous solids .
Works
- Low temperature physics (together with Christian Enss, 2000, ISBN 3-540-67674-0 )
- Solid state physics . 2., verb. Edition 2009, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag. ISBN 978-3-486-59045-6
Web links
- Literature by and about Siegfried Hunklinger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hunklinger, Siegfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 25, 1939 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hochberg |