Werner Fischer (crystallographer)

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Werner Fischer
Born (1931-02-08) February 8, 1931 (age 92)
Education University of Stuttgart
University of Kiel
Known for coordination sequence
lattice complex
Scientific career
Fieldsmathematical crystallography
Institutions University of Münster
Philipps-University Marburg
Thesis Strukturuntersuchungen an synthetischem Carnallit  (1959)

Werner Fischer (born February 8, 1931 in Gablonz an der Neisse, Czechoslovakia) is a German mineralogist and mathematical crystallographer.

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Education and life

Fischer passed his Abitur in 1951 in Kappeln an der Schlei. Supported by the German National Academic Foundation, he studied at University of Stuttgart and University of Kiel. There he also received his doctorate in 1959 with a thesis on structural studies on synthetic carnallite. In 1970 he habilitated at Philipps-University Marburg with a thesis on homogeneous packing of spheres and their conditions of existence in space groups of tetragonal symmetry. In 1971 he was appointed professor. From 1974 to 1978 he worked at the University of Münster and then worked at the Philipps-University Marburg until his retirement in 1996.

Fischer's research dealt with mathematical crystallography, in particular with periodic minimal surfaces, sphere packings, effective areas, normalizers, [1] [2] lattice complexes, [3] the description of crystal structures and worked on the International Tables for Crystallography. This work was very often done in collaboration with Elke Koch. [4]

Honors and awards

Fischer received the 2006 Carl Hermann Medal from the German Crystallographic Society. [5]

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References

  1. Koch, Elke; Fischer, Werner (2006-01-01). "Normalizers of space groups: A useful tool in crystal-structure description, comparison and determination". Zeitschrift für Kristallographie - Crystalline Materials. 221 (1): 1–14. Bibcode:2006ZK....221....1K. doi:10.1524/zkri.2006.221.1.1. ISSN   2196-7105. S2CID   93801575.
  2. Koch, E.; Fischer, W.; Müller, U. (2016-12-31), Normalizers of space groups and their use in crystallography, pp. 826–851, doi:10.1107/97809553602060000933, ISBN   978-0-470-97423-0 , retrieved 2022-07-24
  3. Fischer, W.; Koch, E. (2016-12-31), Lattice complexes, pp. 792–825, doi:10.1107/97809553602060000932, ISBN   978-0-470-97423-0 , retrieved 2022-07-24
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