Materials Scientists and Engineers after the Second World War/ Contemporary Witness Interviews

Applicant Professor Dr. Helmut Maier
Subject Area Mechanical Properties of Metallic Materials and their Microstructural Origins
Term from 2014 to 2019
Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 258036084
 

Project Description

Continuation of the interviews of the contemporary witnesses applying the identical questionnaire and interview-constallation that had been used during the first period of the investigation, in order to guarantee the comparability of the results. Main goal remains securing the memories of the living contemporary witnesses in materials science and engineering in respect to the genesis of the discipline, its relevance for innovation and society, questions of internationalization and the specifics of the inter-German relation of the scientific and professional community before and after the year 1990.
DFG Programme Research Grants