Gisela Anton
Gisela Anton (born Gisela Glasmachers ; born March 27, 1955 in Bullay ) is a German physicist .
Life
Gisela Anton began studying physics in Bonn in 1973 and received her doctorate there in 1983. She was sponsored by the Bonn physics professor Karl-Heinz Althoff . She was employed at the Physics Institute of the University of Bonn from 1984 to 1995 and was in Saclay for research in 1990/91 and in Mainz in 1991/92 . She completed her habilitation in Bonn in 1993 and in 1995 was offered a chair for experimental physics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg .
Gisela Anton took part in the national youth research competition in 1975 and became the national winner. There she met Frank Anton , who also achieved a national victory - the two married in 1979 and have three children.
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Gisela Anton studied high energy physics in Bonn and worked on the ELSA particle accelerator , for which she designed the Amadeus detector . For this achievement she was awarded the Leibniz Prize of the DFG in 1994 and the Federal Cross of Merit in 1995.
In Erlangen she participates in the neutrino detectors ANTARES and IceCube and does applied physics in the medical field.
She is also the founder of the ECAP (Erlangen Center for Astroparticle Physics) .
She is also active as a co-supervisor of the Erlangen Student Research Center.
Awards
- National winner Jugend forscht, 1975
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize , German Research Foundation , 1994
- Federal Cross of Merit on Ribbon , 1995
- Prize for good teaching from the Bavarian State Ministry for Science, Research and the Arts, 2000
- Bavarian Order of Merit , 2009
- Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art , 2010
Web links
- Literature by and about Gisela Anton in the catalog of the German National Library
- Gisela Anton in the AcademiaNet database of renowned women scientists
Individual evidence
- ↑ Gisela Hedwig Anton on prabook.com
- ^ Screws on Elsa. Retrieved July 2, 2016.
- ↑ Two careers, one marriage, and one important prize. In: jugend-forscht.de. Retrieved March 10, 2020 .
- ↑ ECAP Members: Gisela Anton ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ ESFZ - Erlangen Schoolchildren Research Center for Bavaria
- ↑ a b Maximiliansorden for physicists at FAU. Free State of Bavaria honors Prof. Dr. Gisela Anton. October 21, 2010, accessed February 29, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Anton, Gisela |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Glasmachers, Gisela (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German elementary particle physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bullay |