About Herbert Gleiter
Born 1938. Herbert Gleiter is a German physicist and university teacher.
Herbert Gleiter (born 13 October 1938 in Stuttgart) is a German researcher in physics and nanotechnology.
In 1966, he received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Stuttgart in Germany. He received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 1988 for contributions to the field of nanotechnology. He became the Chair Professor of the Institute of Material Science at Saarland University, Germany in 1979. In 2019, he received the Advanced Materials Laureate during the 30th IAAM Award Assembly.
He was elected a Fellow of Core Academy (International Core Academy of Sciences and Humanities) in 2023.
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Herbert Gleiter was born on 13 October 1938 in Stuttgart.
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