Gernot Neugebauer

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Gernot Neugebauer (born July 20, 1940 in Maltheuern ) is a German physicist. From 1992 to 2006 he was Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena . He deals with Albert Einstein and his theory of relativity and the theory of gravity .

Life

In 1958 he began studying physics in Jena and graduated in 1963 with a diploma. After three years of postgraduate study carried out in 1966, the promotion of Dr. rer. nat. with a thesis on the general relativistic theory of irreversible processes and after another four years as an assistant at the Theoretical-Physical Institute of the Jena University, the habilitation in 1970 . From 1970 to 1990 he was first scientific secretary, from 1971 scientific senior assistant. In 1984 he received the Gustav Hertz Prize . In 1989 Neugebauer was appointed associate professor and a year later he was appointed lecturer .

In 1992 he became professor for theoretical physics at the University of Jena. From there he headed the Max Planck working group “Gravitation Theory” until 1996. In 2006 he retired .

In 1998 Neugebauer was elected to the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

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  1. Gernot Neugebauer at the Faculty of Physics and Astronomy
  2. ^ Member entry by Gernot Neugebauer at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on October 12, 2012.