Walter Steurer
Walter Steurer (born December 24, 1950 in Vienna ) is an Austrian crystallographer and university professor.
Steurer studied chemistry at the University of Vienna , where he received his doctorate under Hans Nowotny . From 1980 he was at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (Institute for Crystallography and Mineralogy), where he qualified as a professor in 1987 in crystallography and mineralogy. In 1992/93 he was Professor of Crystallography at Leibniz University Hannover and has been Professor of Crystallography at ETH Zurich since 1993 , where he heads the Laboratory for Crystallography. At the same time he teaches at the University of Zurich .
He dealt in particular with quasicrystals (structure, phase changes), the method of maximum entropy , temperature-dependent measurement of elastic properties on single crystals, modeling of order and disorder phenomena, crystallography in higher dimensions and X-ray holography . He wrote monographs on quasicrystals and alloys, especially with three or more components, which have been the focus of research in the search for novel materials since the 2000s (quasicrystals, high entropy alloys, etc.).
In 1990 he received the Viktor Moritz Goldschmidt Prize of the German Mineralogical Society for his work on higher-dimensional structural analysis. In 2008 he received the Jean Marie Dubois Award for Excellence in Quasicrystal Research. In 2018 he received the Carl Hermann Medal of the German Society for Crystallography.
Fonts (selection)
- with Sofia Deloudi: Crystallography of Quasicrystals: Concepts, Methods and Structures. Springer, 2009.
- with Julia Dschemuchadze: Intermetallics: Structures, Properties and Statistics. Oxford University Press, 2016.
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| SURNAME | Steurer, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian crystallographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 24, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |