Erwin Müller-Hartmann

Erwin Müller-Hartmann (born May 14, 1941 in Cologne ; † January 11, 2020 ) was a German physicist and professor of theoretical physics at the University of Cologne .

Erwin Müller-Hartmann received his doctorate in 1968 from the University of Cologne on the subject of "One-electron properties of the sd exchange model for dilute magnetic alloys". In 1971 he completed his habilitation there . In 1974 he took over a full professorship for theoretical physics at the University of Cologne.

The focus of his scientific work was theoretical solid-state physics , in particular the theory of correlated electron systems and the Kondo effect , and statistical physics . Müller-Hartmann was co-editor of important international physics journals, a. a. the Zeitschrift für Physik B (1996–1997) and the European Physical Journal B (1998–2004). He was the editor of a book on the history of physics in Japan and the German translations of two books by Japanese Nobel Prize winners, the biography Tabibito-Ein Wanderer by Hideki Yukawa and the anthology Welt im Spiegel by Shin'ichiro Tomonaga.

Müller-Hartmann was buried on January 20, 2020 in the Südfriedhof in Cologne-Zollstock.

literature

• E. Müller-Hartmann, Correlated fermions on a lattice in high dimensions , Z. Physik B 74, 507-512 (1989); doi : 10.1007 / BF01311397