Peter Hirsch (other)
Peter Hirsch (born 1925) is a figure in British materials science. Peter Hirsch may also refer to: * Peter Hirsch (microbiologist) (born 1928), German microbiologist *Peter Hirsch (conductor) (born 1956), German conductor *Peter Hirsch (ice hockey) Peter Hirsch (born March 6, 1979) is a Danish former professional ice hockey goaltender. Playing career After playing three seasons for Modo Hockey in the Swedish Hockey League, Hirsch spent a season with the Bakersfield Condors in the ECHL. Dur ...

Peter Hirsch
Sir Peter Bernhard Hirsch HonFRMS FRS (born 16 January 1925) is a figure in British materials science who has made fundamental contributions to the application of transmission electron microscopy to metals. Hirsch attended Sloane Grammar School, Chelsea, and St Catharine's College, Cambridge. In 1946 he joined the Crystallography Department of the Cavendish to work for a PhD on work hardening in metals under W.H. Taylor and Lawrence Bragg. He subsequently carried out work, which is still cited, on the structure of coal. In the mid-1950s he pioneered the application of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to metals and developed in detail the theory needed to interpret such images. He was a Fellow of Christ's College, Cambridge from 1960 to 1966 and was elected an Honorary Fellow of Christ's in 1978. In 1965, with Howie, Whelan, Pashley and Nicholson, he published the text ''Electron microscopy of thin crystals''. The following year he moved to Oxford to take up the Isa ...
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Peter Hirsch (microbiologist)
Peter Hirsch (born 1928 in Plön, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany) is a microbiologist who received his doctorate from the University of Hamburg. After spending nine years in the US he was asked to found an Institute of General Microbiology at the university of Kiel, Germany. He has made many contributions to the study of microbiology. The genus ''Hirschia'', a type of hyphal bacteria Bacteria (; singular: bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell. They constitute a large domain of prokaryotic microorganisms. Typically a few micrometres in length, bacteria were among ..., is named after him. References 1928 births Living people German microbiologists Date of birth missing (living people) University of Hamburg alumni {{Germany-biologist-stub ...
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Peter Hirsch (conductor)
Peter Hirsch (born 1956) is a German conductor, especially of opera. He has conducted several premieres, including Hans Zender's ''Stephen Climax'' at the Oper Frankfurt, and is focused on the work by Bernd Alois Zimmermann. Hirsch has appeared at international opera houses and festivals. Life and career Born in Cologne, Hirsch studied at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln. Subsequently he was assistant to Michael Gielen at the Oper Frankfurt, where he was first Kapellmeister from 1984 to 1987. Hirsch conducted the premiere of the revised and complete version of Luigi Nono's ''Prometeo'' at La Scala in Milan in 1985. A year later, he conducted the world premiere of Hans Zender's opera ''Stephen Climax'' in Frankfurt, and of Nono's ''Risonanze erranti''. He has conducted opera in Europe (at the Welsh National Opera, the English National Opera, the Nederlandse Opera and the Staatsoper Unter den Linden among others). In addition, Hirsch has worked regularly with the Deut ...
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