Albert H. Walenta

Albert Heinrich Walenta (born October 2, 1943 in Naugard ) is a German physicist.

Life

Walenta studied physics in Berlin and Heidelberg from 1963 to 1969 and was a research assistant at the Physics Institute of Heidelberg University until 1976. He received his doctorate in 1972 on the localization of particle by measuring the electron drift time in large-area proportional counters and habilitated in 1975. He was known as "Visiting and Full Scientist" at the 1976-1981 Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton ( New York ) and in 1981 became professor of experimental physics at of the University of Siegen . Walenta was rector of the University of Siegen from 1997 to 2002. From January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2003, Walenta was a board member of the German Academic Exchange Service .

From April 1, 2001 to March 31, 2004, he headed the project "Physics 2000 - New Media in the University Association for a research-oriented study of physics taking into account modern fields of application and including a self-supplementing digital information system", which was funded by the BMBF with a funding amount of over 2, 8 million euros and in which 6 universities participated.

Walenta's plenary member of the Research Center Jülich in the Helmholtz Association and since 1999 Chairman of the Panel on "instrumentation, innovation and development" of the International Committee for Future Accelerators ( German : International Committee for Future Accelerators ), a division of IUPAP (as of 2005).

In 2012, Walenta retired from the University of Siegen with a celebratory colloquium.

Services

In 1973 he was awarded the Physics Prize of the German Physical Society for the development of the multi-wire drift chamber . During his time in the USA he worked on the development of imaging detectors for biomedical applications. He continued this work in Siegen and also worked on projects at CERN and DESY . For this work he was awarded the Leibniz Prize in 1986 for the development and use of electronic spatially resolving detectors in bio-medical and materials science applications .

Awards

• Gustav Hertz Prize , German Physical Society , 1973
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize , German Research Foundation , 1986

Web links

• Literature by and about Albert H. Walenta in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Albert H. Walenta in the bibliographic database WorldCat

• Homepage of the detector physics and electronics working group in Siegen. University of Siegen, archived from the original on July 22, 2011 . 
• Chair of Experimental Physics II at the University of Siegen. Archived from the original on September 27, 2007 ; accessed on September 2, 2014 . 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Researcher, initiator, rector: Professor Albert H. Walenta adopted. University of Siegen, April 23, 2012, accessed on February 5, 2018 .