RESEARCH
Peter Andreas Grünberg
born on 18 May 1939 in Pilsen (now Czech Republic),
parents: Dipl.-Ing. Feodor A. Grünberg and Anna Grünberg
| Year | Occasion |
|---|---|
| 1946: | Resettlement to Lauterbach in Hesse, starts school |
| 1950-1959: | Grammar school in Lauterbach |
| 1959-1963: | Studies of physics at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt (Main), intermediate diploma 1962 |
| 1963-1969: | Continues studies of physics at Darmstadt University of Technology, diploma 1966, doctor´s degree 1969 |
| 1966: | Marries Helma Prausa. Three children: Andreas (1973), Sylvia (1974) and Katharina (1981) |
| 1969-1972: | Postdoctoral Fellow of National Research Council of Canada at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada |
| since 1972: | Research scientist at the Institute of Solid State Research at Research Centre Jülich |
| 1984: | Habilitation at the University of Cologne, "Privatdozent" |
| 1984-1985: | Research stay at Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA |
| 1986: | Activities in the field of antiferromagnetic coupling in Fe/Cr/Fe layers |
| 1988: | Work on the GMR effect in Jülich |
| 1992: | Appointment as adjunct professor at the University of Cologne |
| 1998: | Six-month research stay at the University of Sendai and at Tsukuba Research Centre, Japan |
| 2004: | After 32 years at the Research Centre, Peter Grünberg retires, but continues working |
| 2007: | Forschungszentrum Jülich awards Peter Grünberg the first Helmholtz Professorship |
| 1994 | APS International Prize for New Materials (with A. Fert und S.S.P. Parkin) |
| 1994 | IUPAP Magnetism Award (with A. Fert) |
| 1996 | Technology Prize of the "Association of Friends and Benefactors of Research Centre Jülich" |
| 1997 | Hewlett-Packard Europhysics Prize (with A. Fert und S.S.P. Parkin) |
| 1998 | German Future Prize awarded by the President of the Federal Republic of Germany |
| 2002 | Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy of Ruhr University Bochum |
| 2003 | External Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society |
| 2004 | Manfred von Ardenne Prize for Applied Physics from the European Society of Thin Films (EFDS) |
| 2006 | Award for "European Inventor of the Year" by the European Commission and the European Patent Office |
| 2007 | Stern Gerlach Medal of the German Physics Society (DPG) |
| 2007 | Japan-Prize der Science and Technology Foundation of Japan (JSTF) (with A. Fert) |
| 2007 | Wolf-Foundation-Prize in physics (with A.Fert) |
| 2007 | Nobel Prize in physics (with A.Fert) |
| 2008 | Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany |
| 2008 | Honorary Doctorate, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Science, University of Cologne |
| 2008 | Honorary Doctorate, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Technology II (Physics and Mechatronics Engineering), Saarland University |
| 2008 | Freedom of the City Jülich |
| 2008 | Freedom of the City Lauterbach |
| 2008 | Order of Merit of the German federal state of North Rhine-Westphalia |
| 2008 | Honory doctorate, Gebze Institute of Technology, Turkey |
| 2008 | Minerva Prize of Förderverein Museum Jülich |
| 2008 | Full Member of the Academy of Sciences and Arts of North Rhine-Westphalia, Section for Engineering and Economics |
| 2009 | Honory doctorate, University of Athens, Greece |