Dirk Schwalm

Dirk Schwalm (born February 29, 1940 in Berlin-Wilmersdorf ; † July 14, 2016 in Heidelberg ) was a German physicist and university professor .

Life

After graduating from the Goethe -Gymnasium in Einbeck (1959), Schwalm studied physics at the Universities of Tübingen (1959–1962) and Freiburg (1962–1966). After the diploma in 1966 he moved to the University of Heidelberg to Bogdan Povh , where he and his dissertation Experimental determination of transition probabilities and static quadrupole moments in 20 Ne , 21Ne, 21Ne and 22Ne 1969 doctorate was and then worked as a research assistant. In 1970 he went to the Brookhaven National Laboratory on a grant from the Max Kade Foundation New York , where he then worked as a Research Associate from 1971 to 1972. There he investigated the reaction dynamics of the nuclei through Coulomb excitation and heavy ion collisions .

After returning to Heidelberg , Schwalm completed his habilitation there in 1974 with his habilitation thesis Coulomb excitation of nuclei of the sd shell . In 1975 he became scientific advisor and professor at Heidelberg University and in 1976 private lecturer . In 1976 he also became a senior scientist at the Society for Heavy Ion Research (GSI) in Darmstadt . He set up a research group and investigated the core structure with nuclear spectroscopic experiments at the UNILAC accelerator.

In 1981 Schwalm was appointed to the chair for experimental physics at the Physics Institute at Heidelberg University. Together with Volker Metag and Dietrich Habs , he founded a research group for investigations with the new crystal ball spectrometer at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (MPIK) in Heidelberg . He contributed significantly to the development of the ion storage rings TSR at the MPIK and ESR at the GSI.

In 1993 Schwalm became a Scientific Member of the Max Planck Society and Director at the MPIK. At CERN he worked on the REX-ISOLDE project . He ensured close links between the MPIK and the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy at Heidelberg University, of which he became an honorary member in 1993. In 1994 he became chairman of the Minerva Foundation's Scholarship Committee. In 2005 he retired .

In 2006 Schwalm Joseph Meyerhof became visiting professor at the Weizmann Institute in Rechovot .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Curriculum Vitae Prof. Dr. Dirk Schwalm ( Memento of the original from May 15, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed November 22, 2016). 
2. ^ Fritz Bosch, Dietrich Habs, Matthias Weidemüller, Andreas Wolf, Daniel Zajfman: Obituary for Dirk Schwalm . In: Physics Journal . tape 15 , no. 11 , 2016, p. 56 .
3. ↑ The Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics and the University of Heidelberg (accessed on November 22, 2016).
4. ↑ The President and his oldest young researcher ( Memento of the original from November 23, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed November 22, 2016).