Achim Richter

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Achim Richter (born September 21, 1940 in Dresden ) is a German nuclear physicist . From 1974 he was professor at the Institute for Nuclear Physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt and retired on September 30, 2008 . From November 1, 2008 to October 31, 2012, he was Director at the European Center for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas (ECT *) in Trento , Italy . Since November 1st, 2012 he has been professor at the Institute for Nuclear Physics at TU Darmstadt again.

biography

Richter was born as the son of the builder Georg Edmund Richter and his wife Elsa, b. Wenceslaus, born. In Dresden he attended elementary and high school, where he passed his Abitur in 1958 as the best in his class. After his application to study physics at the TH Dresden had been rejected five times for political and ideological reasons, he initially took up an apprenticeship as a physics laboratory assistant at the Central Institute for Nuclear Research in Rossendorf , but fled to the Federal Republic of Germany via West Berlin in 1959.

In 1959 he began studying physics at the University of Heidelberg and in 1963 was accepted into the German National Academic Foundation . In 1965 he received his diploma in physics from Heidelberg University. In 1967 he received his doctorate in physics under Professor Wolfgang Gentner , Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg. 1967-1968 he worked as a research associate at the Department of Physics of the Florida State University in Tallahassee in the US state of Florida , and from 1969 to 1970 as a postdoctoral fellow at the Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory in Downers Grove Township , DuPage County in the US State of Illinois .

In 1971 Richter became a research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg. After completing his habilitation in physics at the University of Heidelberg, he became a private lecturer there. From 1971 to 1973 Richter was a scientific advisor and professor at the Ruhr University in Bochum . In 1974 he moved to the Technical University of Darmstadt as director of the Institute for Nuclear Physics there.

During his time as director of the IKP in Darmstadt , Richter completed 100 doctoral students of his own.

Richter is a member of the German Physical Society and the German University Association . In late 2005, the American Physical Society elected him as the first non-American senior editor of the prestigious physical journal Reviews of Modern Physics .

Achim Richter has played the viola since childhood . He is married to Christine Monika.

Works

With the development of the superconducting Darmstadt electron accelerator S-DALINAC - the first such accelerator in Europe - and the construction of the first free electron laser (FEL) in Germany, Richter and his colleagues achieved significant research achievements.

He is considered the discoverer of the scissors modes (scissors mode) in heavy deformed nuclei (1984). His scientific work areas cover a broad spectrum in the areas of nuclear physics , atomic physics , radiation physics, accelerator physics and nonlinear dynamics . Particularly noteworthy are studies of symmetries and conservation laws in light nuclei and fluctuation phenomena in nuclear reactions, experiments on electromagnetic nuclear excitations using photons, electrons and hadrons as well as work in the areas of channeling radiation, nonlinear dynamics and quantum chaos.

Awards and honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ APS Fellow Archive. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Member entry by Prof. Dr. Achim Richter (with picture) at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on July 19, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Judge, Achim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nuclear physicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden