Alfred Huebler

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Alfred W. Hübler (born May 16, 1957 in Munich ; † January 27, 2018 in Urbana , Illinois ) was a German physicist who dealt experimentally and theoretically with the physics of complex systems and chaotic dynamics.

Hübler studied physics at the Technical University of Munich . During a stay in 1981 with Hermann Haken in Stuttgart , he got to know the field of synergetics . Back at the Technical University of Munich, he founded a research group at Chair E13 under Edgar Lüscher with financial support from Messerschmitt-Bölkow-Blohm and MAN , which grew to over 100 members. In 1987 he received his doctorate ( description and control of nonlinear systems ). After another year at Haken, he went to the University of Illinois in 1989 and has since headed the Center for Complex Systems Research there . Since 2004 he has been chief editor of Complexity magazine .

His achievements are primarily the expansion of the concept of resonance to non-linear systems, which opens up possibilities for control and spectroscopy of chaotic systems, and the development of many experiments in the field of chaos and structure formation.

His interdisciplinary approach is considered methodologically significant: both the coupling of theoretical and experimental physics and the involvement of scientists from other areas. The vertical distribution of the researchers in his group is also considered exceptional; the spectrum ranges from schoolchildren who found their specialist work topic with him to famous senior citizens of the natural sciences who were guests.

Private

Alfred Hübler was married and the father of six daughters.

References

  1. ↑ http://www.news-gazette.com/obituaries/2018-01-31/alfred-hubler.html
  2. ↑ A. Hübler: Modeling and Control of Complex Systems: Paradigms and Applications, in Modeling Complex Phenomena , L. Lam, A. Naroditsky (Eds.), Springer, New York, pp. 5-65 (1992)
  3. ↑ H.-C. Schulz, S. Hilgenfeldt: Experiments on Chaos , Spectrum of Science, January 1994
personal data
SURNAME Huebler, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hübler, Alfred W.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 2018
Place of death Urbana , Illinois