Bertram Batlogg
Bertram Batlogg (* 1950 in Bludenz, Austria ) is an Austrian physicist and university professor.
Batlogg studied physics at ETH Zurich and in 1979 received his doctorate for a thesis on mixed - valent rare- earth compounds. From 1980 to 2000 he worked in New Jersey at Bell Laboratories, one of the leading research institutes of applied solid state physics, first as a researcher, then as a group leader. For his local work in the field of superconductivity, he was awarded internationally. In the 1990s included the progress in his work group (albeit partially fake, see below) results, especially in the field of high temperature superconductivity to the most spectacular of the entire discipline.
In September 2000 he moved to the Chair of Solid State Physics at ETH Zurich.
In 2002, a former member of his research group at the Bell Labs, Jan Hendrik Schön, multiple scientific forgery was found guilty. The following were alone seven articles in the journal Nature, where Batlogg had acted as co-author, retired. A commission of inquiry set up by Bell Labs came to the conclusion that Batlogg for the fakes his colleague was not responsible, and even no complicity could be proved against him, but called for more accountability from co-authors of scientific publications for the future. In the public debate has also been seen critically that a renowned experimental physicist, who had boasted in many lectures with the results, never even had the experiments want to see.
Batlogg is great-grandson of Montafon freedom fighter Johann Josef Batlogg.