Günter Petzow#


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


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