Gregor Morfill

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Gregor Eugen Morfill
Born (1945-07-23) 23 July 1945 (age 79)
Oberhausen, Germany
NationalityGerman
Education Imperial College London (B.S., Ph.D.)
Awards
Scientific career
Fields Plasma physics, astrophysics, plasma medicine
Thesis  (1971)

Gregor Eugen Morfill (born 23 July 1945 in Oberhausen, Germany) is a German physicist who works in basic astrophysical research [1] and deals with complex plasmas [2] [3] and plasma medicine.

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Early life and career

Gregor Morfill moved to England in 1961. There, he completed his school education and began studying physics at Imperial College London in 1964. In 1967, he graduated with a Bachelor of Science. In 1968, he received a diploma from Imperial College London and in 1971 he received a PhD with his work Satellite studies of energetic particles above the atmosphere. He then went to the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching. In 1977, he did his post-doctorate at Heidelberg University.

In 1975, he received a professorship at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg. In 1983, he headed the Theoretical Astronomy Program at the University of Arizona. In 1984, he became director of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics.

Since 2011, he has been on the scientific advisory board of Bauman University in Moscow. In the same year, he was co-founder of the company terraplasma in Garching near Munich, which develops devices and processes that use cold plasmas for wound healing, among other things. [4]

Scientific contributions

Morfill is the author and co-author of over 500 scientific publications [5] [6] and a popular science book on chaos theory. [7]

In addition to his astrophysical work, Gregor Morfill makes important contributions to the subject of "dusty complex plasmas" (with application to space plasmas and the explanation of the structure of Saturn rings), to the discovery of plasma crystals as a solid state of aggregation of dusty plasmas (discovered in 1994) [8] [9] and to microscopic analysis of the melting process in plasma crystals. He also participates in space plasma experiments with the International Space Station (ISS), such as the experiment PKE-Nefedov (2001–2005) in cooperation with the Russian space agency and the Institute for High Energy Densities (IHED, JIHT) in Moscow. [10] Morfill also researches applications of plasma in medicine such as in the treatment of chronic wounds. [11] [12]

Honors and awards

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References

  1. ↑ Sterzik, Michael F.; Morfill, Gregor E. (1994). "Evolution of Protoplanetary Disks with Condensation and Coagulation". Icarus. 111 (2): 536–546. Bibcode:1994Icar..111..536S. doi:10.1006/icar.1994.1162. ISSN   0019-1035.
  2. ↑ Tsytovich, Vadim N.; Morfill, Gregory E.; Vladimirov, Sergey V.; Thomas, Hubertus M. (2008), "Elementary Processes in Complex Plasmas", Elementary Physics of Complex Plasmas, Lecture Notes in Physics, vol. 731, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, pp. 67–140, Bibcode:2008LNP...731...67T, doi:10.1007/978-3-540-29003-2_3, ISBN   978-3-642-06703-7
  3. ↑ Nunomura, S.; Samsonov, D.; Zhdanov, S.; Morfill, G. (2005). "Heat Transfer in a Two-Dimensional Crystalline Complex (Dusty) Plasma". Physical Review Letters. 95 (2): 025003. Bibcode:2005PhRvL..95b5003N. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.95.025003. ISSN   0031-9007. PMID   16090692.
  4. ↑ Annika. "Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Gregor Morfill – Geschäftsführer • terraplasma GmbH". terraplasma GmbH (in German). Retrieved 8 March 2020.
  5. ↑ Morfill, Gregor E.; Rubin-Zuzic, Milenko; Rothermel, Hermann; Ivlev, Alexei V.; Klumov, Boris A.; Thomas, Hubertus M.; Konopka, Uwe; Steinberg, Victor (2004). "Highly Resolved Fluid Flows: "Liquid Plasmas" at the Kinetic Level". Physical Review Letters. 92 (17): 175004. Bibcode:2004PhRvL..92q5004M. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.92.175004. ISSN   0031-9007. PMID   15169161.
  6. ↑ Ivlev, A. V.; Morfill, G. E.; Konopka, U. (2002). "Coagulation of Charged Microparticles in Neutral Gas and Charge-Induced Gel Transitions". Physical Review Letters. 89 (19): 195502. Bibcode:2002PhRvL..89s5502I. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.89.195502. ISSN   0031-9007. PMID   12443122.
  7. ↑ Morfill, Gregor E. (1991). Chaos ist überall ... und es funktioniert : eine neue Weltsicht. Scheingraber, Herbert. Frankfurt/Main: Ullstein. ISBN   3-550-06509-4. OCLC   75225038.
  8. ↑ Thomas, H.; Morfill, G. E.; Demmel, V.; Goree, J.; Feuerbacher, B.; Möhlmann, D. (1994). "Plasma Crystal: Coulomb Crystallization in a Dusty Plasma". Physical Review Letters. 73 (5): 652–655. Bibcode:1994PhRvL..73..652T. doi:10.1103/physrevlett.73.652. ISSN   0031-9007. PMID   10057503.
  9. ↑ Rubin-Zuzic, M.; Morfill, G. E.; Ivlev, A. V.; Pompl, R.; Klumov, B. A.; Bunk, W.; Thomas, H. M.; Rothermel, H.; Havnes, O.; Fouquét, A. (2006). "Kinetic development of crystallization fronts in complex plasmas". Nature Physics. 2 (3): 181–185. Bibcode:2006NatPh...2..181R. doi: 10.1038/nphys242 . ISSN   1745-2473.
  10. ↑ Nefedov, Anatoli P.; Morfill, Gregor E.; Fortov, Vladimir E.; Thomas, Hubertus M.; Rothermel, Hermann; Hagl, Tanja; Ivlev, Alexei V.; Zuzic, Milenko; Klumov, Boris A.; Lipaev, Andrey M.; Molotkov, Vladimir I. (2003). "PKE-Nefedov\ast: plasma crystal experiments on the International Space Station". New Journal of Physics. 5: 33. CiteSeerX   10.1.1.80.6775 . doi: 10.1088/1367-2630/5/1/333 . ISSN   1367-2630.
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  12. ↑ Shimizu, Tetsuji; Steffes, Bernd; Pompl, René; Jamitzky, Ferdinand; Bunk, Wolfram; Ramrath, Katrin; Georgi, Matthias; Stolz, Wilhelm; Schmidt, Hans-Ulrich; Urayama, Takuya; Fujii, Shuitsu (2008). "Characterization of Microwave Plasma Torch for Decontamination". Plasma Processes and Polymers. 5 (6): 577–582. doi:10.1002/ppap.200800021. ISSN   1612-8869.
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