Gerhard Abstreiter

{{short description|German physicist}}

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Gerhard Abstreiter is a German physicist and professor of physics at Technical University of Munich (TUM), currently holding the university's highest honor, the Emeritus of Excellence and also being a distinguished visiting professor at University of California, Santa Barbara. From 1987 to 2015, he was a full professor at TUM and also, in 2010 and 2011, a distinguished visiting professor at University of Tokyo. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities and acatech.{{Cite web |url=https://www.wsi.tum.de/Portals/0/media/e24/Personal%20Profiles/Abstreiter-CV_selected%20publications_2015.pdf |title=CV |publisher=tum.de |accessdate=December 20, 2016}}{{Cite web |url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=dkJ_YqMAAAAJ&hl=en |title=Gerhard Abstreiter |accessdate=December 20, 2016}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.acatech.de/de/ueber-uns/organisation/person.html?acaUid=22796 |title=Gerhard Abstreiter |publisher=acatech.de |accessdate=December 20, 2016}}{{Cite web |url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n97073217/ |title=Abstreiter, Gerhard |publisher=worldcat.org |accessdate=December 20, 2016}}

He won the Max Born Medal and Prize in 1998.