BIOGRAPHY Werner Martienssen Curriculum Vitae born: 23. Jan. 1926 at Kiel / Germany school: secondary school emphasizing classical languages at Kiel until 1943 1943 military services at the german navy 1946 - 1950 student of physics, mathematics, chemistry at the University
of Würzburg, 1952 Dr. rer. nat. with R. W. Pohl, Göttingen, Thesis: Photochemical
reactions in 1952 - 1959 Wissenschaftlicher Assistent, I. Physikalisches Insitut,
Universität Göttingen. 1959 Habilitation Universität Göttingen 1959 / 60 visiting-professorship at the Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., USA 1960 professorship at the University of Stuttgart, chair for radiation physics 1961 professorship at the University Frankfurt/M., chair for experimental
physics 1969 - 1986 member and chairman of the Darmstadt/Frankfurt Sonderforschungsbereich: 1987 - 1998 member and chairman (1987 - 1993) of the Frankfurt/Darmstadt/Marburg 1991 Honorary doctorate at the University of Dortmund 1994 Professor emeritus at the University of Frankfurt / Main 1994 - now Editor-in -Chief of the data-collection Landolt-Börnstein, Springer-Verlag, Berlin 1976 - 1978 Vicepresident of the European Physical Society, Geneva 1980 - 1988 Chairman of the physics-section at the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 1984 - 1987 Member of the Wissenschaftsrat, Berlin/Köln 1990 - 1997 Member of the supervisory board of the Deutsche Agentur für
Raumfahrt- since 1988 Member of the supervisory board of the Hahn-Meitner-Institut, Berlin 1988 Order of Merit ( I. class ) of the Federal Republic of Germany since 1988 Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina,
Halle; since 1989 Member of the Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen March 2001 Robert Wichard Pohl Preis, Main Research Fields: Experimental Physics
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