Wilfried B. Holzapfel

1938 born in Magdeburg, Germany/ 1963 Diploma in theoretical physics (G. Falk), 1964... married, two children/ 1966 Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) in experimental physics, research associate TU Karlsruhe, (E. U. Franck), U. of Illinois, Urbana, USA, (H. G. Drickamer)/ 1969 Head of high pressure group, TU München, (R. L. Mößbauer)/ 1971 Head of high pressure lab MPI Stuttgart/ 1978 Prof. in physics Univ. Paderborn, Chairman of EHPRG,/ 1988 Member in the editorial board of "High Pressure Research"/ 1989 Chairman of the 12. AIRAPT and 27. EHPRG conference in Paderborn/ 1991 Chairman of the scientific advisory board of HASYLAB at DESY, Hamburg/ 1982-2009 Visiting prof. UCLA, Los Angeles; Lawrence Livermore Lab., USA; Univ. of Bordeaux, France; LENS, Florenz; Univ. of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA