Background
Landwehr, Gottfried was born on August 22, 1929 in Osnabrück, Germany. Son of Hans and Margarete (Strackeljahn) Landwehr.
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Gottfried Landwehr
Edit Profilephysicist university professor
Education
Diploma in physics, TH Karlsruhe, Germany, 1952; Doctor rerum naturalium, TH Braunschweig, Germany, 1956.
Career
After that he worked at the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt in Braunschweig. He was one of the founders of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart (1955) and headed the branch office in France until 1983. From 1968 to 1999 he was professor for experimental physics in Würzburg.
Klaus von Klitzing who is known for the discovery of the integer quantum Hall Effect in 1980 (Nobel Prize 1985) was one of his students. On the initiative of Gottfried Landwehr the well known Centre for semiconductor physics was founded at the Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg. He is also associated with the founding of the chair of applied physics and the department of experimental physics V (biophysics).
Landwehr died, aged 83, in Würzburg. The faculty decided to provide an online condolence book for the first time in its history.
Achievements
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Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Bavarian Order of Merit
2003: Bene Merenti der Universität Würzburg in Gold
Honorary Doctorate from the University of Gießen
Honorary Doctorate from the University of Grenoble
Honorary Member of the Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Membership
Honorary Member of the Ioffe Physical-Technical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Connections
Married Angela Vieweg, 1959. Children: Uta, Harald.
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Nationality
Germany