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Wilhelm Barthlott (born June 22, 1946) is a German botanist and bionics expert. Barthlott’s areas of specialization are systematics and biodiversity research, with the main focus devoted to tropical ecosystems and the global distribution of biodiversity. He is one of the pioneers in the field of biological and technical interfaces. Based on his systematic research on scanning electron microscopy of plant surfaces, he developed self-cleaning (lotus effect) technical surfaces and, in recent years, surfaces which permanently retain air under water. This led to a paradigm shift in particular areas of materials science and facilitated the development of superhydrophobic biomimetic surfaces. This technology has successfully been launched on the market under the trademark Lotus-Effect®. Barthlott has been honored with various awards and prizes, e. g. the German Environment Prize (Deutscher Umweltpreis). He is a member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature of Mainz, the North Rhine-Westphalia Academy of Sciences and Arts, the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina, and is a Foreign Member of the Linnean Society of London. == Career == Wilhelm Barthlott studied biology at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. He earned his doctorate in 1973 with a dissertation subject based on systematics and biogeography of epiphytic cacti. After his habilitation he accepted a chair position at the Free University of Berlin (Freie Universität Berlin), where he served as the head of the Institute for Systematic Botany and Plant Geography from 1982 to 1985. In 1985 he was appointed director of the Botanical Institute and Botanical Garden of the University of Bonn (Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn). In 2003 he founded the NEES Institute for Biodiversity of Plants, to which he was subsequently appointed as Managing director. He was instrumental in the reorganization and expansion of both establishments. Barthlott retired as a University emeritus in 2011, but continues being the head of a long-run research project “Biodiversität im Wandel” (“Biodiversity in Change”), initiated by the Academy of Sciences and Literature of Mainz. He is a founding member of several national and international committees and organisations operating in the fields of biodiversity research, botanical gardens and environmental protection. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Wilhelm Barthlott」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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