Background
Bertram Batlogg was bornin 1950 in the town of Bludenz in Austria. He is the great-grandson of the Swiss freedom fighter Johann Josef Batlogg.
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Bertram Batlogg
physicist university professor
Bertram Batlogg is an Austrian Physicist.
Education
Batlogg was educated in the Swiss Federal Institute Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zurich, earning his diploma in physics in 1974, and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1979 working with mixed valence rare earth compounds.
Career
Bertram Batlogg joined Bell Labs, first as a post-doctoral researcher, and rising to be the head of the Solid State Physics and Materials Research Division at Bell Labs by 1986. After the discovery of high-temperature superconductors in 1987, Batlogg studied various cuprate compounds and together with Bob Cava discovered several transition metal oxide superconductors with high transition temperatures. Starting in 1998, Batlogg worked with Christian Kloc and January Hendrik Schön to study electronic properties of organic crystals.
Over the next two years, the collaboration produced a series of ground-breaking papers regarding properties of these materials.
However, the experimental data provided by Schön was later shown to be fraudulent, and several of the most important papers were retracted by the authors. The incident came to be known as the Schön scandal.
Batlogg, Kloc along with Schön"s other collaborators were cleared of all scientific wrongdoing by an external committee appointed by Bell laboratories Batlogg joined Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule , Zurich as a professor in 2000, where he has remained since.
Achievements
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Bertram Batlogg has been listed as a noteworthy Physicist by Marquis Who's Who.
Membership
Bertram Batlogg is a member of Materials Research Society.
