Klaus Kern

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name = Klaus Kern


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birth_date = birth date and age|1960 |3|24
birth_place = Deesen, Germany
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nationality = German
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field = solid state chemistry
work_institution = Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
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prizes = Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
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Klaus Kern (March 24 1960 – ) is a German solid state chemist.

Kern studied at the University of Bonn chemistry and physics, and received his Ph.D in 1986. He worked first at the Jülich Research Centre with a short visit at the Bell Labs in 1988. He became professor at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in 1991. Since 1998 he is one of the directors of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart.

In 2008, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which is the highest honour awarded in German research.

External links

* [http://www.fkf.mpg.de/kern/prof-klaus-kern.html Webpage of Klaus Kern (MPI Stuttgart)]