Burkhard Jüttner
Dyke Award Recipient 1994
for his pioneering and continuing technical contributions
on the subject of electrical discharges in vacuum
Burkhard Jüttner received the diploma in physics from Humboldt University,
Berlin, Germany, in 1962, and the degrees Dr. rer. nat., Dr. sc., and Professor
of Physics from the academy of Sciences, Berlin, in 1971, 1983, and 1985,
respectively. He worked in basic research on vacuum breakdown, vacuum
arcs (especially cathode phenomena), and electrode processes of gaseous
arcs, as well as in the technical applications of these phenomena. Special
note should be paid to his pioneering work on nanosecond discharges with
clean electrodes in ultrahigh vacuum which provided significant information
on concerning processes of vacuum breakdown and cathode spot formation.
Of particular interest have been the experimental investigation of Prof.
J¸ttner and his colleagues into the substructure of cathode spots
(cells or fragments). Other valuable contributions have been his
much cited reviews of vacuum breakdown and cathode spot phenomena.
Prof. Jüttner has been working on electrical discharges for over
25 years, formerly with the Central Institute of Electron Physics, later
with the Max-Planck Institute of Plasma Physics and currently with the
Humboldt University, Berlin. His has published more than 100 technical
papers in peer-reviewed journals.
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