Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Volker Heine FRS (born 19 September 1930 in Hamburg, Germany) is a New Zealand-British physicist. He was educated at Wanganui Collegiate School and the University of Otago, then Clare College, Cambridge where he became a fellow and professor. He obtained his PhD in physics (1956) in Cambridge as student of Sir Nevill Mott. He was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 1974. He retired in 1997.