| He was born in Dachau (Bavaria) in 1931. He studied physics at the Technical University of Stuttgart and Munchen, and obtained his Ph.D. in 1961 under H. Maier-Leibniz, Technical University Munchen. His major research fields were fission, interaction of heavy ions in matter and atomic physics with fission product beams at the Research Center of Julich (1965 - 1970). |
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| From 1989 - 1992 he was research Director of the European Institute Laue-Langevin (ILL), Grenoble. He was Senior Scientist at the
Gesellschaft fur Schwerionenforschung Darmstadt
, GSI, from 1971 - 1996. He developed recoil separators equipped with new detector systems during most of his scientific career. His main research activities were: synthesis and production of new elements and
isotopes
, studies of reaction mechanisms, studies of characteristic
X-rays
produced in ion-atom collisions - among others X-ray emission from transient superheavy collision systems, studies on track formation of heavy ions in solids by
neutron
and
X-ray
small angle scattering. He also directed experiments on
isotope
production in fission by relativistic reactions of 238U. Since 1996 he is involved in a project on incineration of nuclear waste by spallation and fission reactions. |
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| He has received many awards for his work, to mention a few: the Max-Born Medal awarded by the Institute of Physics London and the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft in 1988, and the Stern-Gerlach Medal awarded by the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft in 1997. |
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