Wolfgang Krätschmer
Wolfgang Krätschmer (born November 16, 1942 in Berlin ) is a German physicist .
Life
Krätschmer studied physics in Berlin . After graduating, he went to the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg , where he did his doctorate in 1971 on etchable traces of artificially accelerated heavy ions in quartz glass . Since then he has been studying lunar samples , meteorite and interstellar dust .
Together with his doctoral student Konstantinos Fostiropoulos and Donald Huffman from the University of Arizona , he developed a process for the synthesis of fullerenes . Only through this process could fullerenes be produced in such large quantities that useful chemical reactions could be carried out. Since 1993 he has been an honorary professor at Heidelberg University .
Awards
- 1992 - Stern-Gerlach Prize
- 1993 - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
- 1994 - Hewlett-Packard Europhysics Prize
- 2002 - Carl Friedrich Gauß Medal
- 2008 - Liebig commemorative coin
- 2008 - Honorary doctorate from the University of Basel
- 2010 - Winner in the Lifetime Achievement category at the " European Inventor Award 2010"
Individual evidence
- ^ Wolfgang Krätschmer: The story of making fullerenes . In: Nanoscale . tape 3 , 2011, p. 2485-2489 , doi : 10.1039 / C0NR00925C .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Krätschmer, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 16, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |