Arnd Leike
Arnd Leike (born July 19, 1960 in Rostock ) is a German physicist and the first German recipient of the Ig Nobel Prize . The main research area of Leike is particle physics .
In 1989 Leike received his doctorate on the subject of investigating the generation of supersymmetric particles in electron-positron reactions at the University of Leipzig . Then he taught at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , which he left after nine years. Today Leike works in the field of renewable energies .
Ig Nobel Prize
Arnd Leike, as a private lecturer at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, published a description of the exponential decay using the example of the foam of beer in the European Journal of Physics in January 2002 . He was able to determine a mathematical formula for calculating the half-life of beer foam and experimentally prove that the foam of different types of beer has a different half-life. For this research he received the Ig Nobel Prize in Physics in 2002.
Web links
- Antje Findeklee, First laugh, then think , Spectrumdirekt from October 8, 2002
- Mark Benecke, Beer foam physics , Die Zeit 42/2002
- Ig Nobel Prizes for dog translators and navel fluff research , FAZ from October 7, 2002
- Arnd Leike interview. In: NakedScience. March 2012, archived from the original on September 21, 2013 (English, French).
Individual evidence
- ↑ Arnd Leike Interview, NakedScience, March 2012 ( Memento from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (French)
- ↑ Vol. 23, pp. 21-26 (2002)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Leike, Arnd |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist and first German winner of the Ig Nobel Prize |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 19, 1960 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Rostock |