Ernst Helmut Brandt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Ernst Helmut Brandt

German physicist

Date of Birth: 17-Sep-1941

Place of Birth: Kaulsdorf, Berlin, Germany

Date of Death: 01-Sep-2011

Profession: physicist

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Ernst Helmut Brandt was a German theoretical physicist working on the Abrikosov vortex lattice in type-II superconductors, particularly with the ideal lattice, its nonlocal elastic response, lattice defects, pinning and geometrical effects in the electromagnetic response of superconductors.He was born on 17 September 1941 in Berlin-Kaulsdorf,the second son of the publisher and bookseller Helmut Brandt and Elise Brandt (née Stümpfle).
From October 1961 to June 1967 he studied physics at the University of Stuttgart and the Technical University of Berlin and the Free University of Berlin.
In 1969, he prepared a doctoral thesis under Professor Alfred Seeger at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research and the University of Stuttgart.
From December 1969 to October 1970, he was a visiting scientist at the Lomonosov University in Moscow.
In 1970, he was given a permanent position as researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, Institute of Physics in Stuttgart, where he stayed until his retirement.