Wolfgang M. Heckl

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Wolfgang M. Heckl speaks at the opening of the GFGF eV General Assembly 2016 in the hall of honor of the Deutsches Museum.

Wolfgang Martin Heckl (born September 10, 1958 in Parsberg , Upper Palatinate ) is a German biophysicist who specializes in nanosciences and scanning probe microscopy . Since 2004 he has been general director of the Deutsches Museum . The communication of science is one of his special concerns, which has led to numerous films and television reports. Since 2009 he has held the Oskar von Miller Chair for Science Communication at the Technical University of Munich .

Life

After graduating from high school with an average of 0.8 at Ostendorfer-Gymnasium in Neumarkt , Heckl studied physics at the Technical University of Munich from 1978 to 1985 , and received his doctorate in 1988. rer. nat. at the Institute for Biophysics in Munich on the topic of lateral organization of lipid monolayers under the influence of amphiphilic foreign substances and proteins . After a postdoctoral period at the University of Toronto and in the IBM research group with Gerd Binnig , he completed his habilitation in physics in 1993 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich on the subject of scanning tunneling microscopy on two-dimensional crystals made of organic molecules and then accepted a professorship from the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich.

In the same year Heckl also received the Philip Morris Research Award for his work on the structure elucidation of the DNA bases and was entered in the Guinness Book of Records for writing an atomic bit under the title "smallest hole in the world" . For his efforts to improve the public communication of scientific results, he was awarded the Communicator Prize of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft in 2002 and the René Descartes Prize of the European Commission in the category "Professional scientists engaged in science communication to the public "excellent. In 2008 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon of the Federal Republic of Germany .

Heckl is a full member of the Center for NanoScience (CeNS), the GeoBio Center of the LMU Munich, the Nanosystems Initiative Munich (NIM) , the German Academy of Science and Engineering (acatech) and other organizations. He is active in numerous committees, including as chairman of the board of trustees of the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics , as a member of the jury of the German Future Prize and the German Environment Prize , and is a board member of the Eduard Rhein Foundation . He also advises the European Commission and the German government in the field of nanotechnology.

Heckl has been General Director of the Deutsches Museum since 2004 . He is responsible for the difficult task of modernization and the ambitious plans to expand to Nuremberg. As for the overpriced measures at the traffic center on Theresienhöhe, he is in the criticism. In 2009 he was also offered the Oskar von Miller Chair for Science Communication at the Technical University of Munich, School of Education / Physics Department.

In the television broadcast Sunday get-together of the Bavarian television Heckl was 2007-2018 regular customer for the PM magazine he wrote the column "Here writes Heckl".

In August 2013 his book The Culture of Repair was published , in which he propagated repair as a way out of obsolescence and the throwaway society . In an interview he said that he regularly meets with Ulrich Walter to repair old televisions.

In 2015 he received the Ring of Honor from the Eduard Rhein Foundation.

Heckl is married to the lawyer Sigrid Schütz-Heckl and has a daughter.

Publications

  • Over 350 articles in scientific journals
  • Scanning tunnel microscopy on two-dimensional crystals made of organic molecules . Munich 1993 (Habilitation thesis Ludwig Maximilians University Munich)
  • Lateral organization of lipid monolayers upon incorporation of amphiphilic foreign substances and proteins 1988 . (Dissertation Technical University of Munich)

Books

Television broadcasts

Web links

Commons : Wolfgang M. Heckl  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Physicist Wolfgang M. Heckl - The culture of repair . In: Deutschlandfunk Kultur . ( deutschlandfunkkultur.de [accessed on November 19, 2017]).
  2. ↑ EU awards Descartes Prize 2004 for scientific excellence. European Commission, December 2, 2004, accessed April 20, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Nanoscientist Wolfgang Heckl receives Federal Order of Merit. LMU, April 7, 2008, accessed April 20, 2019 .
  4. ^ Süddeutsche de GmbH, Munich Germany, Sebastian Krass, Martina Scherf: 150 million euros for the renovation of the Deutsches Museum. Retrieved August 4, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Sunday regulars table: Off for Heckl and Hanitzsch. Evening newspaper , December 6, 2018, accessed December 10, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 98, 27./28. April 2013, p. 31.
personal data
SURNAME Heckl, Wolfgang M.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Heckl, Wolfgang Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biophysicist and university professor, General Director of the Deutsches Museum in Munich (since 2004)
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Parsberg , Upper Palatinate