Annette Zippelius
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Annette Zippelius (born 25 June 1949) is a German physicist, Leibniz Prize winner and an emeritus professor from the University of Göttingen known for her research on complex fluids and soft matter.[1] In 1988 she was appointed to the Chair of Theoretical Physics at the University of Göttingen, making her the first woman to be appointed as a professor of C4 physics in Germany.[2] And in 1998, She was awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize for the construction of an exact network-model with the functioning proprieties of an associative memory.[2] Most recently, in 2023 she was awarded the University Medal "In Publica Commoda" from the University of Göttingen for her service to the university.[2]
Career
[edit]Annette Zippelius studied Physics at the University of Colorado in Boulder, USA. And in 1977, she finished her PhD at the Technical University München. From 1978 to 1980, she was a postdoctoral associate at Harvard University, and from 1980 to 1981 was a postdoctoral associate at Cornell University.[1]
In 1983 she joined the Forschungszentrum Jülich as a researcher.[1]
She is currently an emeritus professor at the University of Göttingen.[1]
Awards and honors
[edit]- 1993: Member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities (Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen).[3]
- 1998: Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG)[1]
- 2002 – 2006: Member of the Executive Board of the German Physical Society (Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft)[1]
- 2005 – 2011: Member of The German Council of Science and Humanities (Wissenschaftsrat)[1]
- 2007 – 2014: Max-Planck Fellow, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen[1]
- 2008: Elected Fellow of the American Physical Society[1]
- 2022: Max Planck Medal of the German Physical Society[4]
- 2023: Awarded The University Medal "In Publica Commoda" from the University of Göttingen[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f g h i Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen-. "Zippelius, Annette, Prof. Dr. - Theoretical Physics (Uni-Phy) - Georg-August-University Göttingen". Georg-August Universität Göttingen (in German). Retrieved 6 September 2024.
- ^ a b c d Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen-. "About ITP - Georg-August-University Göttingen". Georg-August Universität Göttingen (in German). Retrieved 6 September 2024.
- ^ "Prof. Dr. Annette Zippelius: Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen (AdW)". adw-goe.de. Retrieved 7 March 2019.
- ^ "Max-Planck-Medal – Preisträgerinnen und Preisträger". German Physical Society. Retrieved 18 November 2021.
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