Pioneer of Modern Electron Microscopy
Prof. Dr. Harald Rose at FELMI-ZFE

15th March 2016

The German physicist Harald Rose (born 14th February 1935 in Bremen) gives two presentations at the Graz University of Technology. Rose received in 1964 his physics Diplom in theoretical electron optics under Otto Scherzer at the Technical University of Darmstadt. He spent several years in the United States of America (University of Chicago, Cornell, University of Maryland). From 1980 to his retirement in 2000 as professor emeritus, he was active at the University of Darmstadt in the Physics Department. At the end of the 1980s Rose succeeded in rendering atoms visible by fitting electron microscopes with “spectacles” which redirected the errant electron beams that blurred the image. With his colleagues Maximilian Haider and Knut Urban, Rose put his concept into practice. In 2011 the three of them were awarded the Wolf Prize, an award that enjoys the same prestige amongst physicists as the Nobel Prize. Rose has 105 patents of scientific instruments and electrooptical components.