Gerhard Backenstoss

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Gerhard K. Backenstoss (born October 28, 1924 in Lörrach ; † May 30, 2011 in Riehen ), known as Gerhard Backenstoss since his activities in Switzerland , was a German experimental physicist and university professor .

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Backenstoss attended the Hebel-Gymnasium in Lörrach from 1934 and passed his Abitur here in 1941 or 1942. After school he had for Hitler Germany in the war draw.

From 1945 to 1949 he studied physics at the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg . There he did his doctorate on the spectroscopy of gamma radiation . He went to the United States and worked from 1955 to 1957 as a research fellow in the field of semiconductor physics at Bell Telephone Laboratories in Murray Hill , New Jersey . Attending a seminar by Sergio de Benedetti ( Carnegie Mellon University , Pittsburgh ) on pionic and muonic atoms inspired him to take up this research area. A CERN scholarship enabled him to move to Pittsburgh, where he was employed as a research assistant at the Carnegie Institute of Technology from 1957 to 1958 . There he saw that the leading figures from his department were drawn to the European Nuclear Research Center (CERN) in Geneva . From 1959 to 1966 he himself held a responsible position in the service of the CERN nuclear research center. From 1966 to 1974 he worked simultaneously as a research group leader in Geneva, as a member of various advisory groups for governments, institutes, specialist conferences and expert committees and as a lecturer at the University of Karlsruhe .

From 1974 he was a full professor at the Philosophical and Natural Sciences Faculty of the University of Basel and became its dean . Together with Eugen Baumgartner, in addition to teaching as an experimental physicist, he carried out research on nuclear and elementary particle physics . He was involved in the experiments on the LEAR ( Low Energy Antiproton Ring ) storage ring at CERN, in which the first anti-hydrogen atoms were generated in the mid-1990s . He was also co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Physik .

In 1993 he retired . He stayed in Switzerland and died at the age of 87 in his home town of Riehen near Basel.

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  1. ↑ Peter Ade: Donation secures scholarships. In: verlagshaus-jaumann.de/Die Oberbadische. September 23, 2015, accessed May 10, 2018 .
  2. ^ A b c Badische Zeitung: Lever Foundation. Young talent for research and teaching. The Hebel-Gymnasium Foundation wants to support talented students / the physicist Backenstoss is the founder. In: hebel-gymnasium-loerrach.de. December 13, 2007, accessed May 10, 2018 .
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Redaktionsbüro Harenberg: Knaurs Prominentenlexikon 1980. The personal data of celebrities from politics, economy, culture and society . With over 400 photos. Droemer Knaur, Munich / Zurich 1979, ISBN 3-426-07604-7 , Backenstoss, Gerhard K., S. 21 .
  4. ^ Carnegie Mellon University: Exotic bound states of strange hadrons. In: docslide.com.br. March 10, 2017, accessed May 10, 2018 .
  5. ^ A b c Gregers Hansen: The SC: Isolde and Nuclear Structure . In: John Krige (Ed.): History of CERN . Vol. III. Elsevier, Amsterdam / Lausanne / New York / Oxford / Shannon / Tokyo 1996, ISBN 0-444-89655-4 , chapter 9.3.1 MUONIC X-RAYS, p. 327-414 , here p. 341 .
  6. ↑ a b New Perspectives: Solid State Physics and Nanosciences. In: unibas.ch. Susanna Burghartz , Georg Kreis , accessed on May 10, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Internationalization of Physics after World War II. In: unibas.ch. Susanna Burghartz, Georg Kreis, accessed on May 10, 2018 .
  8. ↑ Table of the people awarded the Röntgen Prize. Retrieved April 28, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Butt cheek, Gerhard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jaw thrust, Gerhard K.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German experimental physicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 28, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Loerrach , Germany
DATE OF DEATH May 30, 2011
Place of death Riehen , Switzerland