Personal Honours, Awards, and Distinctions
Markus Breidenich (Dipl-Phys) was awarded the Spingorum-Medal of the Technical-University of Aachen for his masters thesis.
Prof. Thomas. Brückel was appointed to the Scientific Board of the Laue-Langevin Institute (ILL Grenoble). Together with Prof. Mikeska (University of Hannover). Prof. Brückel was voted as 'Representative' on the BMFT-Joint-Project 'Space and time correlations in magnetic materials'.
In June 1998, Prof. Wolfgang Eberhardt was appointed to serve for three years as a member of the Scientific Advisory committee (SAC) of the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory (LBL), Berkeley, California, USA.
Prof. Peter Grünberg received the 1998 German 'Future-Prize for Technology and Innovation'.
In May 1998, Dr. John Harris was awarded an 'Honorary Doctor of Technology' degree by Chalmers Technical University, Gothenburg, Sweden.
Dr. Detlef Hohl completed successfully his 'Habilitation' at the Technical University of Aachen with thesis title 'Computational Theory of High-density Hydrogen'.
In November 1998, Dr. R. Kläsges received in recognition of his dissertation the Ernst-Eckhard-Koch Prize awarded by the 'Support Group of the Berlin Electron-Storage-Ring'.
Prof. Heiner Mueller-Krumbhaar was voted as Representative of the Working Group 'School Physics' of the North-Rhine-Westphalian Conference of University Physics Departments.
Prof. Dieter Richter was appointed to the Research Commission of the Paul Scherrer Institute.
Prof. Dieter Richter was offered a Chair of Experimental Physics by the Technical University of Munich.
Ms Claudia Schlebusch received the Young Scientist Award of the European Materials Research Society for the best paper presented to the E-MRS '98 Symposium in Strasbourg, France.
Dr. Günter Schütz completed successfully his 'Habilitation' at the Mathematics and Science Faculty of the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-University in Bonn with thesis title 'Integrable Stochastic Many-body Systems'.
Dr. Karsten Wildberger was awarded the Borchers-Medal of the Technical-University of Aachen for his doctoral thesis.
Dr. Walther Zimmermann received and accepted the offer of a professor position at the University of the Saarland, Saarbrücken.