Peter Wyder

Peter Rudolf Wyder (26 February 1934 – 30 July 2024) was a Swiss physicist and a professor of experimental solid-state physics at the Radboud University Nijmegen in the Netherlands from 1967 until 1988 and in 1990. Wyder later served as director of the Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses (High Magnetic Field Laboratory) in Grenoble, France.

Life and career

Wyder was born in Burgdorf on 26 February 1934. He obtained his PhD at ETH Zurich in 1965 with a doctoral thesis titled: "Freie Weglängen für die elektrische und die thermische Leitfähigkeit" and thesis advisor Jorgen Lykke Olsen.

He then did research in the USA as a Fellow of the Miller Institute of Basic Research in Science at the University of California, Berkeley (1965) and as a Research fellow at Harvard University (1966). Starting in 1967 Wyder was a professor of experimental solid-state physics at Radboud University Nijmegen. There he worked with the High Magnetic Field Laboratory.

Wyder was director of the Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses (Grenoble High Magnetic Field Laboratory, GHMFL) in Grenoble, France. 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. Wyder was director of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research between 1984 and 2001. He became Honorary Professor at the University of Konstanz (1987) and Nijmegen University (1989). Wyder retired as director of the GHMFL in 2001.

Wyder died in Amsterdam on 30 July 2024, at the age of 90.

Honours

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

PhD students

Wyder's PhD students include:

PhD student Thesis University Year
Hendriks, JanMeasurements on superconducting filmsRadboud University Nijmegen (Katholieke Universiteit Nijmegen)1976
Koning, Jan-Jaap (Jan Jacob)A far Infrared Fabry-Pérot Interferometer for Multiple Reflection Spectroscopy on Heavy Fermion Metals in High Magnetic FieldsUniversity of Konstanz (Universität Konstanz)1995
Maan, Jan KeesSubmillimetre wave spectroscopy of semiconductors in high magnetic fieldsRadboud University Nijmegen1979
Rasing, Theo H. M.Experimental investigation of 4-dimensional superspace crystals: A study of modulated Rb2ZnBr4Radboud University Nijmegen1982
Sparenberg, AnjaLight Propagation in Magnetic FieldsUniversity of Konstanz2001
van der Heijden, Rob W.Far-infrared laser investigations of the high-frequency conductivity of metals under quantum conditions:
Semimetals in high magnetic fields and point contacts		Radboud University Nijmegen1982
van Vlimmeren, Quirinus A. G.Elementary magnetic excitations in ising-like systems:
A study of the excitations in the microwave and far infrared region in RbFeCl3.2H2O		Eindhoven University of Technology (Technische Universiteit Eindhoven)1979

Publications

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References

  1. 1 2 The Faculty of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research (August 2024). "In memory of Peter Wyder". fkf.mpg.de. Max Planck Institute for solid state research. Retrieved 9 August 2024. On July 30, 2024, at the age of 90, Professor Dr. Peter R. Wyder passed away. He was Emeritus Scientific Member of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart.
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  3. 1 2 3 4 "Prof.Dr.sc.nat. Prof. Dr Peter Wyder" (PDF). Elsevier. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 May 2020.
  4. ↑ "Doctoral Thesis Freie Weglängen für die elektrische und die thermische Leitfähigkeit" (PDF). ETH Zurich Research Collection. Retrieved 2 May 2020.
  5. 1 2 Peter Wyder at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. 1 2 "Physics Tree". academictree. The Academic Family Tree. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  7. ↑ "In memoriam Engineer Albert van Etteger (26 September 1943 - 20 April 2020)". Spectroscopy of Solids and Interfaces. Radboud University Nijmegen. Archived from the original on 28 April 2020.
  8. ↑ 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.
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  11. 1 2 "Grenoble High Magnetic Field Laboratory Scientific Report 2005-2006" (PDF). Laboratoire des Champs Magnétiques Intenses. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 August 2017.
  12. ↑ "dr. Peter Rudolf Wyder fysicus". NRC. 3 August 2024. Retrieved 9 August 2024. Dutch newspaper death notice.
  13. ↑ "Peter Wyder". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 26 April 2020.
  14. ↑ More Wyder full text PhD theses and students can be retrieved by a DuckDuckGo search for "Promotor : P. Wyder radboud repository". Consulted August 8, 2024.
  15. ↑ Johannes Wilhelmus Hendriks (1976). "Measurements on superconducting films, link to full text pdf".
  16. ↑ Koning, Jan Jacob (1996). A far Infrared Fabry-Pérot Interferometer for Multiple Reflection Spectroscopy on Heavy Fermion Metals in High Magnetic Fields. Physik in hohen Magnetfeldern Herausgegeben von Peter Wyder Band 1. Konstanz: Hartung Gorre. ISBN 3-89191-989-1.
  17. ↑ "Peter Wyder's research while affiliated with French National Centre for Scientific Research and other places". researchgate.net. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  18. ↑ Search Google Scholar for Peter Wyder.