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Günter Petzow

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According to Wikipedia, Günter Petzow is a German materials scientist and former director at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research. Biography He studied Chemistry and Physical Metallurgy at the University of Stuttgart and the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research. He received his master's degree in 1956 and finished his dissertation on Phase Equilibria of Quarternary Metallic Systems in 1959. Afterwards, he took over as the head of two research groups: phase diagrams of metallic systems and metallography in Stuttgart. Furthermore, he built up the Powder Metallurgical Laboratory in Stuttgart-Büsnau as a place of interdisciplinary research, which attracted guest researchers from all over the world. As a result, the current large campus of the MPG has been established. In 1973 he was appointed scientific member of the board of directors of the Max Planck Society. He was executive managing director of Max-Planck-Institute for Metals Research in Stuttgart and also pofessor at the Universities of Stuttgart and Berlin, where he taught courses in equilibrium phase diagrams and powder metallurgy; he is now retired. His main scientific interests dealt with problems in the field of physical metallurgy, powder metallurgy, special ceramics and phase diagrams of metallic and ceramic materials. He is the author and co-author of more than 600 research papers, 10 books, and holds 27 patents.

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