Peter Wyder

Wyder was born in Burgdorf on 26 February 1934. He obtained his PhD at ETH Zurich in 1965 with a doctoral thesis titled: "Freie Weglängen für die elektrische und die thermische Leitfähigkeit" and thesis advisor Jorgen Lykke Olsen. He then did research in the USA as a Fellow of the Miller Institute of Basic Research in Science at the University of California, Berkeley (1965) and as a Research fellow at Harvard University (1966). There he worked with the High Magnetic Field Laboratory. Wyder was director of the Laboratoire National des Champs Magnétiques Intenses (Grenoble High Magnetic Field Laboratory, GHMFL) in Grenoble, France. The laboratory was founded on the basis of cooperation between the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research and the French National Centre for Scientific Research. Wyder was director of the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research between 1984 and 2001. He became Honorary Professor at the University of Konstanz (1987) and Nijmegen University (1989). ==Honours==