Frank Steglich
Frank Steglich ( born March 14, 1941 in Dresden) is a founding Director and Director of the Research Department Solid State Physics at the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden.
Life
Steglich studied physics from 1960 to 1966 in Münster and Göttingen. In 1969 he received his doctorate in Göttingen with a thesis on the thermal conductivity in highly disordered thin metallic films. In 1976 he completed his habilitation at the University of Cologne in Physics.
From 1978 to 1998 he was professor of experimental physics at the Institute for Solid State Physics at the Technical University / Technical University of Darmstadt.
In 1996 he was the founding director of the Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids in Dresden, where he became the Department of Solid State Physics.
Steglich is considered the discoverer of the heavy-fermion superconductivity (1979).
Since 2001 he has been Vice President of the German Research Foundation ( DFG). Since 2002, he serves on the Board of Governors of the German - Israel Foundation ( GIF).