Albrecht Wagner (physicist)

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Albrecht Wagner (born February 13, 1941 in Munich ) is a German physicist and university professor . His specialty is high energy physics .

Scientific career

Wagner began studying physics in 1960, initially at the Technical University of Munich . He later studied at the Georg August University of Göttingen and at the Ruprecht Karls University of Heidelberg , where he received his doctorate . He worked as a research assistant at Heidelberg University and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory . From 1974 to 1986 he researched experiments at the DORIS - and PETRA - storage ring of the German Electron Synchrotron (DESY) and from 1982 to 1999 at experiments at CERN , the European Center for Particle Physics . In 1984 he became a professor at the University of Heidelberg, in 1991 he accepted a chair at the University of Hamburg . In the same year he was also appointed head of the DESY research department. He held this position until 1999 when he was appointed chairman of the DESY directorate, succeeding Bjørn Wiik . He held this office until February 2009. Since 2008 he has been chairman of the University Council of Hamburg University and since 2010 a member of the board of trustees of the Joachim Herz Foundation.

Research priorities

Wagner's research focuses on the investigation of elementary particles , particularly their properties in high-energy electron - positron collisions, as well as the planning and development of particle detectors to record such collisions. Since 1982, Wagner has been involved in the planning, construction and operation of the OPAL detector at the LEP - storage ring at CERN. From 1991 until his appointment as chairman of the DESY board of directors, he concentrated on the physics of electron-positron linear accelerators , such as the TESLA facility.

Memberships (selection) and awards

Wagner has worked in many research collaborations around the world. He acted u. a. as a scientific advisor to the Federal Ministry of Education and Research , CERN, on the American accelerator project Superconducting Super Collider (not realized for financial reasons) , at the Karlsruhe Research Center , at the Society for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt and at the ELSA particle accelerator at the University of Bonn . He was also a member of the Nuclear Physics European Collaboration Committee (NuPECC) and the European Committee for Future Accelerators (ECFA), the scientific committee of the Laboratori Nationali di Frascati in Italy, the science policy committee of the state science and technology program "Fundamental Nuclear Physics" in Moscow and the Advisory Board for Lepton Colliders of KEK in Japan. Wagner has been a member of the Board of Councilors of the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University OIST since 2011 and a member of the Board of Governors since 2015. From October 2015 to January 2016 he was Acting President of OIST.

From 2001 to 2008 Wagner was coordinator of the research area Structure of Matter and Vice President of the Helmholtz Association , from 2005 to 2009 Chairman of the TESLA Technology Collaboration Board and from 2006 to 2008 Chairman of the International Committee for Future Accelerators (ICFA).

In 1994 he was made a Fellow of the American Physical Society and he is a Fellow of the European Physical Society. In 2002 he received an honorary doctorate from Moscow's Lomonosov University . In recognition of his scientific achievements as well as his longstanding services to German-Slovak cooperation in the natural sciences, Wagner was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Slovak Academy of Sciences in 2007 . Also in 2007 was the award of an honorary doctorate from the Université Paris-Sud . In 2005 he was awarded an honorary professorship by the Russian Academy of Sciences - Siberian Department, and in 2007 he became an honorary professor at the Henryk Niewodniszanski Institute of Nuclear Physics of the Polish Academy of Sciences . Since 2002 he has been a corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences , since 2003 a foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences , since 2006 a full member of the Academy of Sciences in Hamburg .

In 2006 he was awarded the Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany . The researcher had earned Germany's reputation in the world through his contacts in many countries, the reason said.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholars Calendar 2013. 25th edition, Volume 4, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and Boston 2013, ISBN 978-3-11-027421-9 , p. 4271
  2. ↑ University Council of Hamburg University begins fourth term. (No longer available online.) June 2, 2016, archived from the original on January 20, 2017 ; accessed on January 20, 2017 .
  3. ^ Website of the Joachim Herz Foundation
  4. ↑ ECFA website
  5. ↑ OIST website
  6. ↑ ICFA website

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SURNAME Wagner, Albrecht
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist (high energy physics)
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich