Friedrich-Karl Thielemann

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Friedrich-Karl "Friedel" Thielemann (born April 17, 1951 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) is a German theoretical astrophysicist who lives in Switzerland.

Life

Thielemann studied at the TH Darmstadt , where he obtained his diploma in 1976 and received his doctorate in nuclear astrophysics in 1980 under Wolfgang Hillebrandt (in Garching ) and ER Hilf . As a post-doc he was with David Schramm and David Arnett at the University of Chicago , William A. Fowler at Caltech , Hans Klapdor at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics , at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching (near Hillebrandt) and at the University of Illinois(at JW Truran). From 1986 he was assistant professor and from 1991 associate professor at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and at the Harvard Observatory of Harvard University . In 1994 he became a professor at the University of Basel . In 1995 he was visiting professor at the University of Turin and from 1997 to 2001 visiting scientist at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory .

In addition to theoretical and computer-aided astrophysics ( computational astrophysics ) and nuclear astrophysics (including important nuclear reactions and properties of unstable nuclei, the equation of state of quark and nuclear matter of high density), he deals with the subatomic processes that are important for the modeling of astrophysical plasmas. Among other things , he examined supernovae , X-ray and gamma- ray bursts , the merging of neutron stars , the formation of heavy elements and the evolution of chemical elements in galaxies.

In 1979 he received the Otto Hahn Medal . He has been a Fellow of the American Physical Society since 1998 . In 2008 he received the Hans A. Bethe Prize for his many outstanding contributions to the understanding of nucleosynthesis, stellar evolution and stellar explosions . He has been a member of the Swiss Research Council since 2004. In 2012 he received the Lise Meitner Prize . In 2015 he was elected to the Academia Europaea .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ APS Fellow Archive. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
  2. ^ Lise Meitner Prize (European Physical Society). Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Thielemann, Friedrich-Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thielemann, Friedel (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theoretical astrophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 17, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Mülheim an der Ruhr