In 1951 Dieter Langbein started his studies in mathematics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität at Frankfurt am Main, where he met Prof. Friedrich Hund who inspired him to work in theoretical physics.
He set up a table of about a dozen effects contributing to the separation of monotectic alloys during solidification observed in rocket experiments.
Together with the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, he 1985 established The Microgravity Research Experiments (MICREX) Database, for which he was the principal investigator.
[6][7] In 1993 he left Battelle and continued his work at the Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity (ZARM) at the University of Bremen, Germany.
In 1969 Langbein published an article [8] in which he demonstrated that the electron's energy sub-band disposal presents regularities which are connected to the Landau levels.