Peter Neumann#
| Membership Number: | 1696 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1995 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2004 retirement
- 2002 - 2004 vice chairman of the board of directors of the MPIE
- 2001 - 2002 chairman of the board of directors of the MPIE
- 1990 - 2001 chief executive of the MPIE
- 1978 - 2004 Scientific Member and head of the department „Physical Metallurgy“ of the MPIE
- 1972 - 1978 group-leader, Max-Planck-Institute for Iron Research, Düsseldorf, Germany (MPIE)
- 1970 - 1972 visiting Scientist, Argonne National Lab., Argonne, Illinois, USA
- 1967 Dr.rer.nat., Univ. Göttingen, Germany
Fields of Scholarship
- Materials science
- Plasticity
- Fatigue
- Fracture
- Texture representation in Rodriguez space
- Optimum weight constructions
Honours and Awards
- 1969 Masing Memorial Award of the German Society of Materials Science
- Since 1995 member of the Academy of Science of North-Rhine-Westfalia
- Since 1995 member of the Academia Europaea
- 1999 - 2006 member of the Board of Governors of Acta Metallurgica, Inc.
- 2001 Heyn-Denkmünze, The highest award of the German Society of Materials Science
- Since 2002 member of acatech
- 2005 Honorary Doctorate of the Erlangen-Nürnberg-University
