Gottfried Landwehr
Gottfried Landwehr ( born August 22, 1929 in Osnabrück, † January 24, 2013 in Würzburg ) was a German physicist.
Life
Landwehr studied physics at the Technical University of Karlsruhe. He then worked at the Physikalisch - Technische Bundesanstalt in Braunschweig. He was co-founder of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart and ran until 1983, the subsidiary in France. From 1968 to 1999 he was Professor of Experimental Physics at the Julius- Maximilians- University of Würzburg.
On his initiative originated at the University of Würzburg, the Center for Semiconductor Physics, the Institute of Technical Physics and the biophysically oriented chair.
One of his students was Klaus von Klitzing, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics "for the discovery of the quantized Hall effect " in 1985.