Gernot Eder (physicist)

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Gernot Eder (born May 9, 1929 in Vienna ; † November 9, 2000 there ) was an Austrian physicist .

Life

From 1947 Eder studied physics, mathematics and philosophy at the University of Vienna , where he received his doctorate in theoretical physics in 1951. In 1953 he was at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Göttingen with Werner Heisenberg and from 1955 at the theory group of CERN at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen . In 1956 he was again an assistant at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Vienna, where he completed his habilitation in theoretical nuclear physics in 1957. In the same year he received the first Ludwig Boltzmann Prize (ÖPG) awarded at the time . In 1963 he became a professor at the University of Giessen . From 1971 he was professor for nuclear physics at the Technical University of Vienna . At the same time he became head of the Atomic Institute of the Austrian Universities. In 1997 he retired.

He initially dealt with quantum field theory and nuclear physics , later also with astrophysics , gravitation and geophysics . Later he also wrote on religious and philosophical subjects.

At the same time he was already active as a student (during which he completed a two-year lay theology course) in the Catholic student community. From 1973 to 1975 he was chairman of the Catholic Academic Association of the Archdiocese of Vienna and from 1980 to 1983 of all of Austria.

He was a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 1973 and a full member since 1994. In 1983 he received the Great Silver Medal of Honor for Services to the Republic of Austria and in 1995 the Medal of Honor in Gold from the City of Vienna . In 1974 he received the Cardinal Innitzer Prize .

Eder was buried at the Gersthofer cemetery .

Fonts

  • Nuclear Forces - Introduction to Theoretical Nuclear Physics. Karlsruhe, Braun, 1965
  • Nuclear matter - basics and problems of nuclear physics. Spectrum Academic Publishing House, 1995
  • Electrodynamics BI Wissenschaftsverlag, 1967
  • Quantum Mechanics I BI Wissenschaftsverlag, 1968 1980
  • Atomphysik 1978, 2nd edition, BI Wissenschaftsverlag 1989 (the second volume of its quantum mechanics)
  • Is Physics Universal? , Series Classics of World Science Volume 3, Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 2000
  • Behave yourself, dear Christian. Johannes Verlag, 1955
  • Quanta, molecules, life - terms and ways of thinking in natural science today. Freiburg, Alber, 1963
  • Hot iron - cold porridge. Graz, Austria-Medien Service, 1995.
  • Metamorphoses of Matter , lecture at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1998
  • My Theological Testament , 2000

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Eder, Gernot
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 9, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 2000
Place of death Vienna