Bogdan Povh

Bogdan Povh (born August 20, 1932 in Belgrade ) is a Slovenian-German nuclear and particle physicist.

Povh moved with his family to Ljubljana in 1935 , where he grew up. He studied physics at the University of Ljubljana with a diploma in 1955 and was then an assistant at the J. Stefan Institute. After research stays at the California Institute of Technology (from 1957, where he dealt with spectroscopy of light nuclei) and the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg , where he dealt with Delbrück scattering , he went back to Ljubljana, where he received his doctorate in 1962. The dissertation was on the nuclear photoelectric effect and the capture of radiation by protons in light nuclei. He then worked as an assistant in Freiburg for two years, where he completed his habilitation in 1964. From 1965 he was a professor at the University of Heidelberg and also had a permanent research group at CERN that dealt with high-energy nuclear physics. From 1975 he was director at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics until his retirement in 2000. He was frequently visiting fellows at CERN, Berkeley and Los Alamos.

In 2005 he received the Stern-Gerlach Medal for his achievements in the spectroscopy of hyper nuclei . He developed a method of recoil-free production of hyperons . Once bound in the atomic nucleus, these particles can be used as “probes” to investigate the nucleus.

He was editor of the Zeitschrift für Physik A.

Fonts

• B. Povh, K. Rith , C. Scholz, F. Zetsche, W. Rodejohann: Particles and nuclei: An introduction to physical concepts. 9th edition, Springer, 2014, ISBN 978-3-642-37821-8 .
• B. Povh: Illustrative physics: for natural scientists. Springer, 2011, ISBN 978-364-217786-6 .
• B. Povh: From the little Van de Graaf to the big HERA , in I. Appenzeller u. a. (Ed.), Heidelberg physicists report, Volume 2, Heidelberg University Library 2017 (Memories, with a short biography and photo on p. 77)

Web links

• Literature by and about Bogdan Povh in the catalog of the German National Library