Günter Petzow#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 1508 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1993 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Günter Petzow passed away February 4, 2024.
Positions Held
- Executive Managing Director of Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart
- Professor at the Universities of Stuttgart and Berlin
- 1973 Scientific member of the board of directors of the Max Planck Society
Fields of Scholarship
- Intermetallic compounds
Honours and Awards
- 1977 Kuczynski Diplom from International Institute for the Science of Sintering (IISS) for the best paper 1976/77 on "Particle Rearrangement in Solid State Sintering", Z.f. Metallkde. 67 (1967) 611-618
- 1978 Gottfried Wagner Memorial Lecture, Tokyo Institute of Technology
- 1982 Hume-Rothery Prize from the Institute of Metals, London
- 1982 Henry-Clifton Sorby Award from the Internat. Metallographic Society (IMS) USA
- 1984 Heyn-Denkmünze, the highest distinction from the German Society of Materials, Frankfurt
- 1984 Roland-Mitsche Prize from the Federation of Austrian Metal Industry of Technical and Scientific Union of "Austrian Iron and Steel Industry" and the German Society of Metals, Leoben
- 1986 Research Prize from the Japanese Society for Powder and Powder Metallurgy, Tokyo
- 1987 Arthur-Burkhardt-Prize of the German Science Foundation, Stuttgart
- 1989 Skaupy-Prize for Powder Metallurgy 1989, German Powder Metallurgy Association, Hagen, Westf.
- 1989 ASM-IMS Distinguished Lecturer in Metallography
- 1989 International Prize of the Japanese Fine Ceramics Association, Tokyo
- 1990 Albert Sauveur Achievement Award from the American Society for Materials (ASM International), Materials Park, Ohio
- 1990 1st Class Order for national merits of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn
- 1991 The Centennial Award of the Japanese Society of Ceramics, Tokyo
- 1992 Buehler-Prize for the best paper in the Journal Practical Metallography 1991, Dresden
- 1993 Sosman Memorial Lecture, American Ceramic Society, Cincinnati, USA
- 1994 Carl von Bach Gedenkmünze of the Staatliche Materialprüfungsanstalt Stuttgart
- 1994 Medal of the Hungarian Academy of Science (Institute for Technical Physics), Budapest
- 1995 President's Award of the IMS/ASM (Internat. Metaliographic Soc. Inc.) Albuquerque, USA
- 1995 Order of the Rising Sun with Golden Rays and Neck Ribbon of the Japanese Emperor
- 1996 Golden Badge of the Union for Animal Protection
- 1997 Great HONDA-Prize for Distinguished Achievements in the Field of Eco-Technology Honda Foundation, Japan
- 1998 Golden Badge of Honor of the Max Planck Society
- 1998 Plaque of Appreciation of the Korean Ceramic Society
- 2002 - 2003 ISI Highly Cited Author
- 2003 Gold Medal for Merits, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
- 2004 Golden Badge of Honor of the Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
- 2005 Medal of Honor for merits in materials research of The Institute of Material Research of the Slovak Academy of Sciences (SAS)
- Honorary professorships
- 1978 Schlumberger Professorship of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
- 1986 Honorary Professor of the Technical University Berlin, Germany
- 1988 Honorary Professor of the Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Academia Sinica, China
- 1989 ASM-IMS Distinguished Lecturer on Metallography, USA
- 1994 Honorary Professor of the Institute of Metals of the Academia Sinica, Shenyang, China
- 1994 Em. Honorary Professor of the University of Stuttgart
- 1998 Research Professor in the Ceramic Materials Research Institute of the Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea
