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Peter Haasen
Peter Haasen
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His ideas and the beautiful experiments performed by him and his coworkers affect almost all of materials science/engineering. Haasen was the exemplar of the great and justly well-known professor, respected and listened to worldwide.
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All complex phenomena had to be explained quantitatively in terms of microscopic structures and mechanisms, according to Haasen. Thus, again his work covers an amazing breadth of phenomena: plasticity mechanisms, fiber reinforcement, charging of dislocations, effects of high pressures, internal friction, fracture, and particularly the ductile brittle transition, besides recr,vstallization, texture formation as well as fatigue in metals and alloys, and the thermodynamics of metastable systems.
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With the discovery of hard superconductors in the early 1960s, he moved vigorously into that field. After his visit to Cambridge in 1961, he set up electron microscope investigations of the highest resolving power and introduced field ion microscopy.
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Haasen was tireless in his support of the profession of metal physics and of modern metallurgy and materials science, the last term is not often used in German. He was a member of the American Physical Society, of the Gottingen Academy of Sciences (president 1981-1983~.
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He was extremely touched to learn on his deathbed of the award to him of an honorary doctorate by the Technion. Haasen's contribution to publishing in the field of materials science has been enormous; besides more than 220 publications authored by him and his famous text Physical Metallurgy, he was on the editorial board of Zeitschrift fur Metallbunde, Acta Metallurgica, Scripta Metallurgica, Progress in Materials Science, Materials Science and Engineering, and Physica Status Solidi.
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- to succeed Martin Kersten and Ulrich Stiller he was pressed to go to the University of Saarbrucken, but the students at Gottingen persuaded him to stay. As the quintessential dignified professor, the student revolts in 1968 or so deeply upset his moral sense.
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