Peter Maria Schuster#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 2687 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2009 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
Peter Maria Schuster passed away December 26, 2019.
Positions Held
- 1976 Founder and director of the trade and industrial plant AOL-Dr. Schuster, Analytik, Optik, Lasertechnik in Vienna
- 1969 Career as an industrial manager and physicist in Germany, director of marketing at Carl Zeiss in Oberkochen, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Physics
Honours and Awards
- 1999 Member of the scientific board of the Christian Doppler Foundation in Salzburg
- 2000 Member of the Österreichischer P.E.N.-Club
- 2004 Golden Decoration of Merits of the Salzburg Land, Austria
- 2005 President of the Section "History of Physics" of the Austrian Physical Society (ÖPG)
- 2006/07 Award for literature of the Austrian Government
- 2007 President of the Group "History of Physics" of the European Physical Society (EPS)
- 2007 President of the Victor Franz Hess Society
- 2009 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 2010 Director of the European Centre for the History of Physics 'echophysics' and of the 'Victor Francis Hess' Research and Heritage Centre
