Gerd Wolf (physicist)

Gerd Wolf

Gerhard Hans Wolf (born November 11, 1933 in Eger , Czechoslovakia ) is a German physicist .

Life

Wolf spent his childhood in Eger in what is now the Czech Republic , where his father worked as a lawyer. His family was friends with the family of the later SPD member of the Bundestag and President of the Center against Expulsions Peter Glotz . At the age of twelve, however, she had to emigrate to Aalen as a result of the displacement . From 1952 to 1957 he studied physics in Munich , among others with Heinz Maier-Leibnitz .

After completing his studies, he worked as a plasma physicist, including at Forschungszentrum Jülich , in the development of a nuclear fusion reactor ( ITER ). In addition, after completing his habilitation, he taught at universities in Tübingen and Düsseldorf . On September 21, 1998, he was nominated for membership in the European Economic and Social Committee , where he was active in political advice, mainly in the fields of energy and science, until 2015. He is an associate of the Académie Royale de Belgique .

Wolf is married and has two children.

Honors

On June 10, 2005, Wolf was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class , for his services to German science and the advancement of fusion research . In his laudation, the then State Secretary for Science in North Rhine-Westphalia, Hartmut Krebs , summed up Wolf's services: “For more than four decades, Professor Wolf has promoted European research and the next generation of scientists. In addition, he made a significant contribution to Germany taking an important position in global fusion research today. "

Fonts (selection)

• The absolute calibration of decay rates and their application for measuring thermal activation cross-sections. "Nukleonik" 2, 7, 1961. Springer Verlag.
• Use of the M&S Configuration for Theta-Pinches. "Journal for Natural Sciences" 24a, 1969.
• The Dynamic Stabilization of the Rayleigh-Taylor Instability and the Corresponding Dynamic Equilibrium. "Zeitschrift für Physik" 227, 20a, 1969.
• Dynamic Stabilization of the Interchange Instability of a Liquid-Gas Interface. Physical Review Letters 24,9, 1970.
• Dynamic Stabilization of Hydrodynamic Interchange Instabilities. A Model for Plasma Physics. Anthology of the American Institute of Physics. "Feedback and Dynamic Control of Plasmas" AIP Conference Proceedings No. 1, 1970.
• Enhanced Plasma Losses due to Secondary Currents. "Nuclear Fusion" 17, 3, 1977.
• An assessment of the concept of convection cooling through the boundary layer of toroidal fusion plasmas. Jülich: Central Library d. Jülich nuclear research facility, 1980.
• A Helical Magnetic Limiter for Boundary Layer Control in Large Tokamaks. "Nuclear Fusion" 21, 6, 1981, together with Feneberg.
• Burn condition for fusion plasmas, helium particle confinement and exhaust efficiency. "Nuclear Fusion" 30, 10, 1990, together with D. Reiter and H. Kever, Central Library, Research Center Jülich, 1990.
• Operating Space of the Dynamic Ergodic Divertor for TEXTOR. "Nuclear Fusion" 39, 5, 1999, together with several authors.
• 50 Years of Controlled Nuclear Fusion in the European Union. "europhysicsnews" 39/2, 2008, together with Paul Vandenplas.
• Science and Society. In: The risk of the new. Contexts and restrictions of science. Festschrift for Klaus Fischer on his 60th birthday. Bautz, Nordhausen 2009, ISBN 978-3-88309-507-3 , pp. 245-260.
• Dynamic stabilization of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability of miscible liquids and the related “frozen waves”, Physics of Fluinds 30, 021701 (2018)

Web links

• Press release on the Cross of Merit (PDF file; 29 kB)
• Entry in the EESC membership register