Person Salje; Ekhard Karl Hermann (1946-2025); physicist Salje Ekhard Karl Hermann physicist 1946-2025 German British Male Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe 26 October 1946 19461026 England, United Kingdom 24 February 2025 20250224

Physicist Quantum optics Theoretical physics Geochemistry Mineralogy Nanomaterials Experimental Physics Condensed matter Solid state physics Crystallography Physics Education: University of Cambridge MA; University of Hanover PhD Career: Head of Department at the Institute for Crystallography and Petrology at the Leibniz University Hannover (1983); moved to Cambridge (1985); Professorship in Mineral Physics in the Department of Earth Sciences (1992); headed the Faculty of Earth Sciences in Cambridge (1998-2008); President of Clare Hall College (2001-2008); Member of the University Council of Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (2011-2019, Chairman since 2015); Emeritus Professor of Mineralogy and Petrology. Awards/Medals: Abraham-Gottlob-Werner medal in mineralogy 1994 Schlumberger medal of the Mineralogical Society 1998 Humboldt Research Prize 2000 Ernst Ising prize for Physics 2002 Gold medal of the University of Hamburg 2002 Chevalier dans l’ordre des Palmes Academiques 2004 Agricola medal for Applied Mineralogy 2006 Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, first class (Germany) 2006 Werner Heisenberg medal 2017 Member Academia Europaea 2021 Became one of the world leaders in applying the theoretical and experimental advances of physics to problems in mineralogy and solid-state-physics. His work on feldspars showed how the internal state of order and strain in a mineral can be understood and related to its geological history via a few parameters in the Landau free energy. This approach has been successfully extended to kinetics and resulting textures. He was first to use the line shape of ‘hard’ phonons to measure degree of order, a technique particularly useful in complex mineral structures. He studied metal–insulator transition in terms of the behaviour of polaron gas. He demonstrated atomic mechanisms of acoustic emission during mechanical and electric perturbations. His work on multiferroic materials in physics and material sciences is internationally leading. Fellow 14/03/1996 49 The Royal Society Fellows Directory, Professor Ekhard Salje FRS [URL: https://royalsociety.org/people/ekhard-salje-12222/; last accessed: 09/09/2025] ORCID, Ekhard Salje; Salje, [URL: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8781-6154; last accessed: 09/09/2025] Universitat Wurzburg, News and Events, Ekhard Salje Deceased, 19 March 2025, [URL: https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/news-and-events/news/detail/news/ekhard-salje-deceased/; last accessed: 09/09/2025] International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 https://royalsocietypublishing.org/action/doSearch?ContribAuthorRaw=Salje%2C+Ekhard+Karl+Hermann RCN 52093 26 Oct 1946 - The past Fellows entries are under continuous revision. If you have queries or additional information to contribute, please contact Library@royalsociety.org. Content in external sources is not controlled by the Royal Society and historical sources may include content that is now unacceptable. Reviewed on 09/09/2025 as part of the Name Authority Project update. NA4711 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 09/09/2025 RS_NET\VidaM Yes f24966ef-f7fc-4716-a3cc-b6807f5bb328