Cornelius Noack

Cornelius Noack (born August 20, 1935 ; † April 6, 2018 in Bremen ) was a German physicist and professor at the University of Bremen .

Life

Cornelius Noack studied physics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg until 1961 , among his teachers were the nuclear physicists Wolfgang Gentner and Hans Jensen . After graduating in 1961, he went to Amos de Shalit at the Weizmann Institute in Rechovot , Israel, for two years . With the first extended guest stay, Noack opened doors for further young German scientists in this country.

After his return, Noack was promoted to Dr. rer. nat. doctorate and habilitation three years later . In the course of the 1968 movement , the politically interested Noack became Vice-Rector of Heidelberg University as a non- professor in 1970 .

A year later, Noack was offered the first chair for theoretical physics at the newly founded University in Bremen. He represented and helped to shape the transformation of the red executive to a “normal” university. Noack was scientifically active in the border area between nuclear and elementary particle physics , among other things models were developed for the quark-gluon plasma . For decades he was the spokesman for the Institute for Theoretical Physics and campaigned against decentralized, networked computers at the university and against a traditional “ data center ”. He established the general physics colloquium and regularly presented the achievements of the Nobel Prize winners. In retirement, Noack continued to give lectures on quantum mechanics and quantum electrodynamics from 2000 until a second stroke in 2006 .

Noack was a member of the SPD and often worked as an expert and reviewer in the state of Bremen . After the Chernobyl nuclear disaster (1986) he was Deputy Chairman of the “Bremen Energy Advisory Council”. Noack rejected the commercial use of nuclear energy .

Cornelius Noack played oboe himself and was a member of the Friends of the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen . He was married; there are three daughters from the marriage.

Fonts (selection)

• The application of group theoretic methods in the theory of the shell model of atomic nuclei. Heidelberg 1964.
• Double charge exchange of π mesons on complex nuclei. Heidelberg 1967.
• Energy for the city of the future. The example of Bremen; the final report of the Bremen Energy Advisory Board. Schüren, Marburg 1989.
• For the safety of the transport of radioactive substances in the area of ​​the city of Saarbrücken. Bremen 1990.
• Poincaré covariant particle dynamics. Bremen 1994.

Web links

• Faculty 1 of the University of Bremen: Obituary for Prof. Dr. Cornelius Noack - August 20, 1935 - April 6, 2018.