Stefan Hüfner (July 2, 1935 in Löwenberg,

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– January 17, 2013 in

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) was a German

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specialized in

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and photoemission spectroscopy.

Education and career

Hüfner studied mathematics and physics at the Goethe University of Frankfurt and the Technical University of Darmstadt. After graduating from 1960 to 1966, he was a scientific assistant at the Institute for Technical Physics at the TU Darmstadt. In 1963 he received his doctorate there, supervised by

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. In 1966 he obtained ''

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'' in physics. He was a guest researcher at the

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and at the

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in Murray Hill, N.Y., USA. From 1967 to 1968 he was a ''

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'' at the TU Darmstadt and the doctoral supervisor of Peter Grünberg, who was awarded the

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in 2007. In 1968 he received a call to the professorship for experimental physics at the

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as the successor to Professor

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. In 1975, Hüfner moved to the professorship for experimental physics at

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. In 1994 he became founding speaker of the Collaborative Research Center "Interface-determined Materials". In 2001 he took over the office of university vice president for planning and strategy, which he held until the beginning of 2003. In September 2003 he retired.

Honors and awards

Hüfner was an emeritus member of the advisory board of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, the

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in Munich, the

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in Greifswald and Munich and the Max Planck Institute for Quantum Optics in Munich and other advisory boards of the

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. Since 2004 he has been a member and chairman of the Technical Committee for Engineering Sciences of the Elite Network of Bavaria. In 2006/2007 he was a visiting professor at the

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in Vancouver, Canada. He received honorary doctorates from the

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and the

Works

Hüfner authored the classic textbook on photoemission spectroscopy, first published in 1995 and has gone through three editions in total. In addition to numerous scientific publications, Hüfner has also written several novels, including ''Der Tote von Dresden'' (Conte Verlag 2004, ) and ''Artikel eins. Ein Zukunftsroman'' (Conte Verlag 2006, ).

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External links

* * Universität des Saarlandes
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