Peter Fulde

Peter Fulde ( born April 6, 1936 in Wroclaw, Lower Silesia Province ) is a German theoretical physicist.

Life

Peter Fulde his doctorate in 1963 at the University of Maryland. He was appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main in 1968. From 1971 to 1974 he headed the theory group at the Institute Laue -Langevin in Garching. Subsequently, he was until 1993 Director of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, before he took a post as director at the Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems in Dresden until his retirement in 2007. From 2007 to 2013 he was president and has been Honorary President of the Asia Pacific Center for Theoretical Physics and Distinguished Professor at POSTECH, Pohang ( Korea).

His research interests are in the theory of solid state physics. Particularly noteworthy are his contributions to the theory of metals to crystal fields in rare earth to electronic correlations and quantum chemistry. The Fulde - Ferrell - Larkin - Ovchinnikov ( FFLO ) phase, which can occur in superconductors, is named after a prediction, among others, Peter Fulde.

His scientific work has led to numerous honors; inter alia, he holds an honorary doctorate at the University of Frankfurt, a member of the Leopoldina (since 1995) and the German Academy of Science and Engineering - acatech and honorary professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw (Breslau). 2007 Order of Merit of the Free State of Saxony, he was awarded. On 23 June 2009, he was appointed honorary member of the Forschungszentrum Dresden -Rossendorf. In 2009 he was awarded the Tsungming -Tu price. In 2011 he was awarded the Marian Smoluchowski Emil Warburg Prize of the German and Polish Physical Society.