Biography:Stefan Hüfner

Short description: German physicist (1935–2013)

Stefan Hüfner
Born	(1935-07-02)July 2, 1935 Löwenberg, Silesia, Poland
Died	January 17, 2013(2013-01-17) (aged 77) Saarbrücken, Saarland, Germany
Education	University of Frankfurt Technical University of Darmstadt
Known for	Photoemission spectroscopy
Scientific career
Institutions	Technical University of Darmstadt Bell Labs Free University of Berlin Saarland University
Doctoral advisor	Karl-Heinz Hellwege
Doctoral students	Peter Grünberg Michael Loewenhaupt

Stefan Hüfner (July 2, 1935 in Löwenberg, Silesia – January 17, 2013 in Saarbrücken, Saarland) was a German experimental physicist specialized in solid-state physics and photoemission spectroscopy.

Education and career

Hüfner studied mathematics and physics at the Goethe University of Frankfurt and the Technical University of Darmstadt. After graduating from 1960 to 1966, he was a scientific assistant at the Institute for Technical Physics at the TU Darmstadt. In 1963 he received his doctorate there, supervised by Karl-Heinz Hellwege. In 1966 he obtained habilitation in physics. He was a guest researcher at the Technical University of Munich and at the Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill, N.Y., USA. From 1967 to 1968 he was a privatdozent at the TU Darmstadt and the doctoral supervisor of Peter Grünberg, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2007.

In 1968 he received a call to the professorship for experimental physics at the Free University of Berlin as the successor to Professor Gerhard Simonsohn. In 1975, Hüfner moved to the professorship for experimental physics at Saarland University. In 1994 he became founding speaker of the Collaborative Research Center "Interface-determined Materials". In 2001 he took over the office of university vice president for planning and strategy, which he held until the beginning of 2003. In September 2003 he retired.

Honors and awards

Hüfner was an emeritus member of the advisory board of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Greifswald and Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Munich and other advisory boards of the Max Planck Society. Since 2004 he has been a member and chairman of the Technical Committee for Engineering Sciences of the Elite Network of Bavaria. In 2006/2007 he was a visiting professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

He received honorary doctorates from the University of Fribourg and the Free University of Berlin.

Works

Hüfner authored the classic textbook on photoemission spectroscopy, first published in 1995 and has gone through three editions in total.

In addition to numerous scientific publications, Hüfner has also written several novels, including Der Tote von Dresden (Conte Verlag 2004, ISBN:978-3-936950-49-6) and Artikel eins. Ein Zukunftsroman (Conte Verlag 2006, ISBN:978-3-936950-41-0).

Bibliography

Textbooks and monographs

• Hüfner, Stefan (1978). Optical spectra of transparent rare earth compounds. New York: Academic Press. ISBN 0-12-360450-8. OCLC 3870316. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/3870316. 
• Hüfner, Stefan (1988) (in German). Der Physiker und sein Experiment aus d. Leben e. ausserordentl. Professors. Konstanz: Universitätsverlag Konstanz. ISBN 978-3-87940-327-1. OCLC 310893693. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/310893693. 
• Hüfner, Stefan (2003). Photoelectron spectroscopy : principles and applications (3rd ed.). Berlin: Springer. ISBN 3-540-41802-4. OCLC 50920762. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50920762. 
• Hüfner, Stefan (2007). Very high resolution photoelectron spectroscopy. Berlin: Springer. ISBN 978-3-540-68133-5. OCLC 185026983. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/185026983. 

Fictions

• Hüfner, Stefan (2004) (in German). Der Tote von Dresden. Saarbrücken: Conte Verlag. ISBN 978-3-936950-13-7. OCLC 76651414. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76651414. 
• Hüfner, Stefan (2006) (in German). Artikel eins: ein Zukunftsroman. Saarbrücken: Conte Verlag. ISBN 978-3-936950-41-0. OCLC 181541387. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/181541387. 
• Hüfner, Stefan (2009) (in German). Die Frauen des Physikers: Roman. Merzig: Gollenstein Verlag. ISBN 978-3-938823-48-4. OCLC 318215192. https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/318215192. 

Reviews

• Hüfner, S. (1978). "ESCA as a method of surface analysis" (in en). Fresenius' Zeitschrift für analytische Chemie 291 (2): 97–107. doi:10.1007/BF00482546. ISSN 0016-1152. http://link.springer.com/10.1007/BF00482546. 
• Steiner, P.; Höchst, H.; Hüfner, S. (1978). "XPS investigation of simple metals: I. Core Level Spectra" (in en). Zeitschrift für Physik B: Condensed Matter 30 (2): 129–143. doi:10.1007/BF01320978. ISSN 0340-224X. http://link.springer.com/10.1007/BF01320978. 
• Höchst, H.; Steiner, P.; Hüfner, S. (1978). "XPS investigation of simple metals: II. The Valence Band Spectra" (in en). Zeitschrift für Physik B: Condensed Matter 30 (2): 145–154. doi:10.1007/BF01320979. ISSN 0340-224X. http://link.springer.com/10.1007/BF01320979. 
• Hüfner, S. (1979), Ley, Lothar; Cardona, Manuel, eds., "Unfilled inner shells: Transition metals and compounds", Photoemission in Solids II, Topics in Applied Physics (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg) 27: pp. 173–216, doi:10.1007/3-540-09202-1_3, ISBN 978-3-540-09202-5, Bibcode: 1979ps2..book..173H, http://link.springer.com/10.1007/3-540-09202-1_3, retrieved 2022-05-12 
• Hüfner, S. (1981). "Photoemissionsspektroskopie in Chemie und Physik" (in de). Naturwissenschaften 68 (7): 360–370. doi:10.1007/BF01058025. ISSN 0028-1042. Bibcode: 1981NW.....68..360H. http://link.springer.com/10.1007/BF01058025. 
• Courths, R; Cord, B; Wern, H; Hüfner, S (1983-01-01). "Angle-Resolved Photoemission and Band Structure of Copper". Physica Scripta T4: 144–147. doi:10.1088/0031-8949/1983/T4/031. ISSN 0031-8949. Bibcode: 1983PhST....4..144C. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0031-8949/1983/T4/031. 
• Courths, R.; Hüfner, S. (1984). "Photoemission experiments on copper" (in en). Physics Reports 112 (2): 53–171. doi:10.1016/0370-1573(84)90167-4. Bibcode: 1984PhR...112...53C. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/0370157384901674. 
• Hüfner, S. (1987), "Chapter 67 Photoemission in chalcogenides" (in en), High Energy Spectroscopy, Handbook on the Physics and Chemistry of Rare Earths, 10, Elsevier, pp. 301–319, doi:10.1016/s0168-1273(87)10009-8, ISBN 978-0-444-87063-6, https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0168127387100098, retrieved 2022-05-12 
• Hüfner, S. (1994). "Electronic structure of NiO and related 3d-transition-metal compounds" (in en). Advances in Physics 43 (2): 183–356. doi:10.1080/00018739400101495. ISSN 0001-8732. Bibcode: 1994AdPhy..43..183H. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00018739400101495. 
• Hüfner, S; Claessen, R; Reinert, F; Straub, Th; Strocov, V.N; Steiner, P (1999). "Photoemission spectroscopy in metals" (in en). Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena 100 (1–3): 191–213. doi:10.1016/S0368-2048(99)00047-X. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S036820489900047X. 
• Reinert, Friedrich; Hüfner, Stefan (2005-04-29). "Photoemission spectroscopy—from early days to recent applications". New Journal of Physics 7 (1): 97. doi:10.1088/1367-2630/7/1/097. ISSN 1367-2630. Bibcode: 2005NJPh....7...97R. 
• Hüfner, Stefan; Schmidt, Stefan; Reinert, Friedrich (2005-07-21). "Photoelectron spectroscopy—An overview" (in en). Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment 547 (1): 8–23. doi:10.1016/j.nima.2005.05.008. Bibcode: 2005NIMPA.547....8H. https://linkinghub.elsevier.com/retrieve/pii/S0168900205010946. 
• Hüfner, Stefan; Reinert, Friedrich; Schmidt, Stefan; Nicolay, Georg; Forster, Frank (2008), Hempelmann, Rolf; Baumgärtel, Helmut, eds., "Photoemission Investigation of the L̄ -Gap Surface States on Clean and Rare Gas-Covered Noble Metal (111)-Surfaces", Progress in Physical Chemistry Volume 2 (Oldenbourg Verlag): pp. 183–207, doi:10.1524/9783486598674.183, ISBN 978-3-486-58629-9, https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1524/9783486598674.183/html, retrieved 2022-05-12 
• Hüfner, S; Hossain, M A; Damascelli, A; Sawatzky, G A (2008-06-01). "Two gaps make a high-temperature superconductor?". Reports on Progress in Physics 71 (6): 062501. doi:10.1088/0034-4885/71/6/062501. ISSN 0034-4885. Bibcode: 2008RPPh...71f2501H. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0034-4885/71/6/062501. 

See also

• Jürgen Kirschner

External links

• Universität des Saarlandes: „Neuer Vizepräsident: Stefan Hüfner“, Januar 2001