Egbert Kankeleit

Egbert Kankeleit

Egbert Kankeleit (born April 16, 1929 in Hamburg ) is a German physicist .

Kankeleit studied nuclear physics in Munich and received his doctorate in 1961 in the group of Heinz Maier-Leibnitz (Munich). He then went to CalTech in Pasadena (USA) as a Senior Research Fellow . From there he followed a call to the TH Darmstadt in 1967 , where he stayed until his retirement in 1997. In 1977 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) .

In particular, the Mössbauer shaped his scientific life. He is the founder of conversion electron Mössbauer spectroscopy, which he first used in nuclear physics (nuclear moments) and later increasingly in materials science (isomer shifts).

The study of muonic atoms at CERN as well as parity violation during gamma decay and positron research at the Society for Heavy Ion Research (GSI) are also among his main research areas.

The miniaturized Mössbauer spectrometer (MIMOS) was developed in Egbert Kankeleit's group. MIMOS is being used successfully in the current Mars missions.

The interdisciplinary working group Natural Science, Technology and Security IANUS was set up by Egbert Kankeleit together with colleagues from other faculties. Starting from scientific-technical topics, which form the basis of the research group, IANUS also illuminates ethical questions such as the role and responsibility of the scientist in the atomic age. In the context of peace research, for example, IANUS deals with questions relating to the non-proliferation of nuclear materials. The group was awarded the Göttingen Peace Prize in 2000.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Egbert Kankeleit: Investigation of conversion electrons in the Mössbauer effect on Wolfram-182 with a magnetic spectrometer. In: Journal of Physics. 164, 1961, pp. 442-455, doi : 10.1007 / BF01679805 .
2. ↑ APS Fellow Archive. Retrieved February 9, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Current research report : Center for Interdisciplinary Technology Research (IANUS) ( Memento from June 11, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Web links

Commons : Egbert Kankeleit  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• TUD intern, newspaper of the Technical University of Darmstadt ( Memento from August 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 4.22 MB)
• Mössbauer drive and amplifier in the Deutsches Museum Bonn ( Memento from May 2, 2015 in the web archive archive.today )
• Mars Moessbauer Group, University of Mainz ( Memento from May 9, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
• Risks that have not been taken into account on the risk path ( Memento from July 4, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 150 kB)
• Laudation on IANUS ( Memento from February 6, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )