Klaus Kern | |
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| Born | (1960-03-24)24 March 1960 (age 65) |
| Awards | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, van't Hoff Prize |
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| Fields | Physical Chemistry |
| Institutions | Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research and EPFL |
| Doctoral students | Magalí Lingenfelder |
Klaus Kern (born 24 March 1960) is a German physical chemist. Kern received theGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of theDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft in 2008.[1]
Kern studied at theUniversity of Bonnchemistry andphysics, and received hisPh.D. in 1986.
He worked first at theJülich Research Centre (1986-1991) and atBell Labs as visiting research fellow in 1988. He then became professor at theÉcole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 1991. Since 1998, he is one of the directors of theMax Planck Institute for Solid State Research inStuttgart.[2]
Through his research and publications, Kern has pioneered the bottom-up fabrication and characterization of nanostructures all the way down to molecular and atomic length scales. He and his group have developed novel methods to control atomic and molecular interactions at surfaces which have provided the unique ability to engineer atomic and molecular architectures of well-defined size, shape, composition and functionality. With Manish Garg, Kern developed a microscope for observing extremely fast processes at the quantum scale; allowing for electron tracking at the scale of individual atoms.[3]
As of 2024[update], hish-index is 132 according toGoogle Scholar.[4]
In 2008, he received theGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of theDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which is the highest honour awarded in German research.[1]
{{cite journal}}:Cite journal requires|journal= (help)By cleverly combining established techniques of tunneling microscopy and laser spectroscopy, a team led by Klaus Kern, Director at the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, has now overcome these obstacles. Using their atomic quantum microscope, they can make the movement of electrons in individual molecules visible.
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