Gerhard Borner
Gerhard Börner (born April 20, 1941 in Plauen ) is a German astrophysicist.
Börner studied at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he did his doctorate with Hans-Peter Dürr and Werner Heisenberg with a thesis on the uniform field theory in cosmology developed by Heisenberg with the help of Dürr. He then spent three years as a postdoc in Japan and the USA. During this time he turned his research interests to astrophysics and worked, among other things, on the structure of neutron stars , the physics of pulsars and X-ray sources.
After his return to Munich in 1973 he became an employee of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics (MPA). Since 1983 he has been professor of physics at the University of Munich. In 1984 he was visiting professor at the University of Zurich . From 1986, one focus of his scientific work has been cosmology, which he introduced as a new research area at the MPA.
Börner is the author of a number of popular science books on cosmology and astrophysics and a specialist book on cosmology.
Fonts
- The early universe - facts and fiction , Springer 1988, 4th edition 2003, ISBN 3540441972 (700 pages)
- Cosmology , Fischer Kompakt, 2002, ISBN 3596153557
- The new image of the universe - quantum theory, cosmology and their meaning , Pantheon, Munich, 2009, ISBN 357055077X
- Creation without a Creator? , German publishing house 2006
- God and the Big Bang , Freiburg, Alber 2004
Web links
- Homepage in Garching
- Literature by and about Gerhard Börner in the catalog of the German National Library
References
- ↑ Field theories in de Sitter space with special consideration of the nonlinear spinor theory
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Borner, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German astrophysicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 20, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Plauen |