Gerhard Soff

Gerhard Soff (born December 30, 1949 in Amöneburg , † December 10, 2004 in Dresden ) was a German theoretical physicist.

Soff received his physics diploma at the Goethe University Frankfurt in 1972 ( a test of nonlinear electromagnetic field theories in muonic atoms ) and received his doctorate in 1976 from the University of Frankfurt under Walter Greiner ( electron-positron pair generation in heavy ion collisions ). He then went to Yale University , Vanderbilt University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory . From 1978 to 1980 he was a consultant at the Society for Heavy Ion Research (GSI) in Darmstadt. He then received a Heisenberg scholarship and completed his habilitation ( electron excitation in super-heavy quasi-molecules ). From 1985 he was a theorist at GSI and also a professor at the University of Giessen . He also worked at the National Bureau of Standards in Washington DC and the University of California, Santa Barbara in the 1980s and was visiting professor at the University of Arizona in 1989/90 . He also held an honorary professorship in Frankfurt from 1986. From 1993 he was a professor at the TU Dresden .

He dealt with atomic physics of heavy ions, various theoretical problems with heavy ion collisions (Coulomb excitation, fission, formation of quasi-molecules, etc.) and quantum electrodynamics in strong fields ( e.g. electron-positron pair generation in heavy ion collisions and QED effects in strong fields in heavy ions, for example the Lamb shift ). He also worked on muon-catalyzed fusion and theoretical biophysics (in Dresden).

In 1989 he received the Röntgen Prize .

He was married and had two children.

Fonts

• with H. Kalka Supersymmetry , Teubner Verlag 1997

Web links

• Literature by and about Gerhard Soff in the catalog of the German National Library
• Obituary at IOP Science, pdf