Herbert Gleiter

Herbert Gleiter ( born October 13, 1938 in Stuttgart ) is a German physicist and materials scientist and winner of the Leibniz Prize.

Life

Herbert Gleiter graduated from the University of Stuttgart from a PhD in physics. He then worked at the University of Göttingen and received various professorships, first at the University of Bochum, Harvard University and MIT.

Since 1973 he was Chair of Materials Science at the University of Saarland. He conducted research in Israel, at Bell Laboratories, at the University of Wisconsin, Monash University, Tohoku University, Beijing University and the University of New South Wales.

From 1994 he was a member of the responsibility for basic research and new technologies on the board of the Research Center Karlsruhe. Since 1998 he has been the managing director of the newly founded Institute for Nanotechnology of the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe.

Since 2007 he is a member of the Presidium of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - National Academy of Sciences.

Importance

Herbert Gleiter designed as materials scientists the foundations for the modern nanotechnology. In 1981, he expressed the vision that in a reduction of the grain sizes in crystalline materials, the interfaces for the material properties are increasingly critical. In 1982, he described this new class of materials as nanocrystalline.

Herbert slider is today often referred to because of its pioneering work in the field of nanomaterials as one of the founders of nanotechnology.

Honors

He has received, among others in 1989 with the Leibniz Prize of the DFG research. The Vinci of Excellence Award from the Hennessy Vuitton Foundation, the Max Planck Research Award (1993, together with Dieter Wolf, Argonne National Laboratory), 1995, the Gold Medal of the Federation of European Materials Societies, 1998, Heyn coin In addition, he was DGM, 2000 and 2006, the Heisenberg and Humboldt Humboldt Foundation medal, in 2007 the gold medal of Acta Materialia, 2008/09 RFMehl price and the Von Hippel Award of the Materials Research Society and TMS, 2009 Blaise Pascal medal of the European Academy of Sciences and the Edward DeMille Campbell award 2012 by the American Society for Metals.

He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (since 1998), the U.S. National Academy of Engineering, the Indian National Academy and the European Academy of Sciences. The universities of Darmstadt, Munster and ETH Zurich have awarded him an honorary doctorate.