Günter Wolf (physicist)
Günter Wolf (born November 23, 1937 in Ulm ) is a German experimental elementary particle physicist and retired university professor .
Wolf studied in Tübingen and Hamburg. From its beginnings in 1961, he was at the particle accelerator DESY in Hamburg and, after spending several years at the SLAC (from 1967 to 1970, later again in 1984/85), was a senior scientist there from 1971. He was instrumental in the detection of gluons (1979) in the Tasso collaboration at the Petra storage ring, of which he was temporarily the spokesman. In 1985 he was spokesman for the ZEUS collaboration at the DESY Hera accelerator. He was a professor in Hamburg.
In 2011 he received the Stern-Gerlach-Medal . 1995: High Energy and Particle Physics Prize of the EPS.
Fonts
- with Paul Söding : Experimental evidence on QCD , Annual Review Nucl. Part. Sci., Vol. 31, 1981, 231-293
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ At SLAC he was the spokesman for the Laser induced polarized photon experiment , Beamline, autumn 1994
- ^ John Ellis: Those were the days: discovering the gluon . In: CERN Courier . tape 49 , no. 6 , 2009, p. 15–18 (English, cern.ch ).
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SURNAME | Wolf, Günter |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German experimental elementary particle physicist |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 23, 1937 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Ulm |