Peter Wyder

Peter Rudolf Wyder (born 26 February 1934) is a Swiss physicist. He was a professor of experimental solid-state physics at the Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands. Wyder later served as director of the High Field Magnet Laboratory in Grenoble, France.

Life

Wyder was born on 26 February 1934 in Burgdorf.[1] He obtained his PhD at ETH Zurich in 1965 with a doctoral thesis titled: "Freie Weglängen für die elektrische und die thermische Leitfähigkeit".[2] From 1967 he was a professor of experimental solid-state physics at Radboud University Nijmegen.[1][3] There he worked with the High Field Magnet Laboratory.[4]

Wyder was director of the High Field Magnet Laboratory (GHMFL) in Grenoble, France.[5][6] The laboratory was founded on the basis of cooperation between the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research and the French National Centre for Scientific Research.[7] Wyder was director of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research between 1984 and 2001.[1] He retired as director of the GHMFL in 2001.[7]

Wyder was elected a foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1985.[8]

References
  1. "Prof.Dr.sc.nat. Prof. Dr Peter Wyder" (PDF). Elsevier. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 May 2020.
  2. "Doctoral Thesis Freie Weglängen für die elektrische und die thermische Leitfähigkeit" (PDF). ETH Zurich Research Collection. Retrieved 2 May 2020.
  3. "In memoriam Engineer Albert van Etteger (26 September 1943 - 20 April 2020)". Radboud University Nijmegen. Archived from the original on 28 April 2020.
  4. S. Chikazumi; N. Miura (6 December 2012). Physics in High Magnetic Fields: Proceedings of the Oji International Seminar Hakone, Japan, September 10–13, 1980. Springer Science & Business Media. p. 24. ISBN 978-3-642-81595-9.
  5. Alison Abbott (17 December 1998). "European physicists split on new magnet". Nature. Retrieved 2 May 2020.
  6. Schopper Herwig; Jacob Maurice (4 May 1995). Large Facilities In Physic - Proceedings Of The 5th Eps International Conference On Large Facilities. World Scientific. p. 450. ISBN 978-981-4549-62-2.
  7. "Grenoble High Magnetic Field Laboratory Scientific Report 2005-2006" (PDF). Laboratoire des Champs Magnétiques Intenses. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 August 2017.
  8. "Peter Wyder". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 26 April 2020.


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