Fritz Coester (physicist)

Fritz Coester (born October 16, 1921 in Berlin ) is a German-American physicist who works in theoretical nuclear physics.

Coester grew up in Freiburg im Breisgau and began studying literature at the University of Lausanne in 1939 , but shortly afterwards switched to physics and received his doctorate in 1944 at the University of Zurich under Gregor Wentzel ( On the stability of heavy nuclei in meson theory ). He then worked as a physicist in the aerodynamics laboratory at the Sulzer brothers in Winterthur . In 1946 he became research assistant at ECG Stueckelberg at the University of Geneva and in 1947 assistant professor at the University of Iowa , where he worked with Josef-Maria Jauch , among others . In 1953 he became an associate professor and 1960 professor at the University of Iowa. From 1963 he was a Senior Physicist at Argonne National Laboratory , where he had been a consultant since 1955 and officially retired in 1997, but continued his scientific work. He was at the Institute for Advanced Study in 1953/54 .

At the end of the 1950s, Coester and Hermann Kümmel developed the Coupled Cluster method in many-body theory . In the 1960s and 1970s, when sufficient computer capacity was available, the method was widely used in quantum chemistry and nuclear physics for ab initio calculations.

He is a member of the US, Swiss and European Physical Societies and the International Association of Mathematical Physics.

Coester is a passionate mountaineer.

literature

Karl von Meyenn : Wolfgang Pauli. In: Scientific correspondence. Vol. 4, part 3 (1955-1956), Springer 2001, p. 529 (short biography).

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ for example Gdanitz Methods of Quantum Chemistry 1999
^ F. Coester: Bound states of a many-particle system . In: Nuclear Physics . tape 7 , p. 421-424 , doi : 10.1016 / 0029-5582 (58) 90280-3 .
^ F. Coester, H. Kümmel: Short-range correlations in nuclear wave functions . In: Nuclear Physics . tape 17 , p. 477-485 , doi : 10.1016 / 0029-5582 (60) 90140-1 .

personal data
SURNAME	Coester, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German-American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 16, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH	Berlin

[1] r example Gdanitz Methods of Quantum Chemistry 1999

[2] F. Coester: Bound states of a many-particle system . In: Nuclear Physics . tape 7 , p. 421-424 , doi : 10.1016 / 0029-5582 (58) 90280-3 .

[3] F. Coester, H. Kümmel: Short-range correlations in nuclear wave functions . In: Nuclear Physics . tape 17 , p. 477-485 , doi : 10.1016 / 0029-5582 (60) 90140-1 .