Gert Heinrich
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Gert Heinrich (born 13 December 1950) is a German physicist, materials scientist and TU Dresden university lecturer. He is known for contributions to "statistical-mechanical and constitutive continuum theory, molecular dynamics, friction theory and fracture mechanics" of polymers.
Gert Heinrich was born on 13 December 1950 in Plauen, East Germany. He grew up in Pausa and in 1969, after graduating from high school and completing his skilled work as a bricklayer, began studying physics at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena, which he completed in 1973 with his diploma thesis in the department of "Applied Quantum Theory" under Gerhard Weber on the topic of "On the theory of multiphoton processes in strong electromagnetic fields". He then worked as a scientific assistant and senior assistant in the physics section at the Carl Schorlemmer Technical University of Leuna-Merseburg (THLM). He received his doctorate in the field of theoretical physics under the supervision of Günter Helmis in 1978 on the topic of "Mechanical properties of polymer networks taking into account the impenetrability of the network chains".[1]
In 1984 he obtained the Facultas Docendi in theoretical physics and in 1985 he qualified as a professor with his thesis "Development and application of a theory of polymer networks and melting under molecular field theoretical consideration of topology conservation".[1]
