Ulrich Gösele

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Ulrich Gösele

Ulrich Michael Gösele (born January 25, 1949 in Stuttgart ; † November 8, 2009 in Halle (Saale) ) was a German physicist . Since 1993 he has been director at the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics in Halle.

Life

Gösele studied physics and received his doctorate in 1975 at the University of Stuttgart with a thesis on the further development of the theory of diffusion-determined, bimolecular reactions with applications ; he wrote his dissertation with Alfred Seeger at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research . He then worked as a visiting scientist in South Africa and at the Thomas J. Watson Research Center at IBM in Yorktown Heights (USA) before returning to the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research. Due to his research there on the subject of reaction kinetics and diffusion in condensed systems , he completed his habilitation in 1980 at the University of Stuttgart. After brief stays at the Siemens research laboratories in Munich and again at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, he was appointed full professor at Duke University in North Carolina (USA) in 1985 . From there he returned to the Max Planck Society as a scientific member in 1993 and took over the management of an experimental department at the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics. In 1994 he received an honorary professorship at the Martin Luther University in Halle-Wittenberg . Guest stays took him to Japan and in 2003 to Harvard University (USA).

Life's work

Gösele's field of work mainly comprised topics in semiconductor physics and technology and solid-state nanostructures. Together with the numerous employees in his department, he researched, among other things, the production and characterization of functional nanostructures based on compound semiconductors such as silicon or oxides, diffusion and defects in semiconductors, self-organized structure formation in the nanometer range, nanowires and nanotubes , photonic crystals and oxidic functional materials. He is the co-author of more than 700 original publications and the editor of several books.

Gösele played a key role in the establishment and expansion of the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics as well as in the further development of the scientific landscape in the south of Saxony-Anhalt, particularly the Weinberg campus in Halle. He was a co-initiator of scientific cooperation between the Max Planck Society and the Fraunhofer Society , in particular between the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics and the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM, which has now become the Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure from its location in Halle emerged from materials and systems . In addition, his great willingness to act as a consultant for representatives of regional development potentials and the state settlement company IMG (Investment and Marketing Company Saxony-Anhalt) should be mentioned.

Awards and membership in scientific committees

  • Scientific member of the Max Planck Society
  • Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina
  • Member of the Scientific and Technical Committee of the Supervisory Board of the Research Center Karlsruhe and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
  • Member of the board of trustees of the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials
  • Member of the Innovation Council of the State of Saxony-Anhalt
  • Member of the Imperial-Royal Bohemian Physical Society
  • Honorary Professor, Institute of Semiconductors, Chinese Academy of Beijing, PR China
  • Fellow of the Institute of Physics , UK
  • Electronics Division Award of the Electrochemical Society, USA
  • Adjunct Professor of Materials Science, Duke University, USA
  • Board of Directors, Materials Research Society , USA
  • Fellow of the American Institute of Physics , USA
  • Fellow of the American Physical Society , USA

literature

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  1. ↑ from: Application for the award of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany to Ulrich Gösele; Applicant Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM, Prof. Dr. Ralf B. Wehrspohn
personal data
SURNAME Gösele, Ulrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gösele, Ulrich M .; Gösele, Ulrich Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Stuttgart
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 2009
Place of death Halle (Saale)