work_institution birth_place nationality field birth_date prizes article_title name
max planck institute for solid state research deesen , germany german solid state chemistry 24 march 1960 gottfried wilhelm leibniz prize klaus kern
 klaus kern
klaus kern

kern studied at the university of bonn chemistry and physics , and received his ph.d. in 1986 .
he worked first at the jülich research centre with a short visit at the bell labs in 1988 .
he became professor at the École polytechnique fédérale de lausanne in 1991 .
since 1998 , he is one of the directors of the max planck institute for solid state research in stuttgart .
in 2008 , he received the gottfried wilhelm leibniz prize of the deutsche forschungsgemeinschaft , which is the highest honour awarded in german research .
his `` h '' - index exceeds 50 .
