Alexander Bradshaw

Alexander Marian Bradshaw CBE ( born July 12, 1944 in Bushey, United Kingdom) is a British physicist.

Life

Bradshaw studied chemistry at Queen Mary College, London University and received his doctorate in chemistry in 1969 physical. 1974 and his habilitation at the Institute of Physical Chemistry, Technical University of Munich. From 1976 to 1998 he worked at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in Berlin. There he was appointed in 1980 as head of the newly founded Department of Surface Physics for scientific member and director at the Institute. He also was a 1981-1985 and 1988-1989 Scientific Director of the Berlin Electron Storage Ring Society for Synchrotron Radiation.

Bradshaw from 1998 to 2000, President of the German Physical Society, then to 2002, Vice- President. From 1999 to 2008 he was scientific director and chairman of the scientific leadership of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics. Since 1997, Bradshaw honorary professor of experimental physics at the Technical University of Berlin (currently entpflichtet ), and since 2000 also at the Technical University of Munich. Since December 2008, Bradshaw is again working at the Fritz Haber Institute as Professor Emeritus.

Bradshaw is co-founder and former Editor -in- Chief of the New Journal of Physics and member of the Berlin- Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, the Academia Europaea, the German Academy of Science and Engineering ( Acatech ), the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (since 2002) and the Royal Society London.

Honors and Awards

Bradshaw received, among other things, the 1994 Max Planck Research Award (jointly with Philip Woodruff, University of Warwick ) and the 2001 Medal of the European Physical Society for the Public Understanding of Physics. He holds honorary doctorates from the University of London and an honorary member of the American Institute of Physics. He was awarded the Rudolf Jaeckel - Award 2007 of the German Vacuum Society ( DVG ). Also in 2007 he was nominated for his Europe-wide coordination of fusion research by the British Queen Elizabeth II as Commander of the Order of the British Empire. In March 2012, Bradshaw was appointed by the German Physical Society as an honorary member.