Hans Joachim Specht

Hans Joachim Specht (born June 6, 1936 in Unna ) is a German experimental particle and nuclear physicist and lecturer at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg .

Specht attended high school in Kamen and studied physics from 1956 to 1962 at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich , the Technical University of Munich and the ETH Zurich . In 1964 he received his doctorate summa cum laude at the Technical University of Munich under Heinz Maier-Leibnitz , where he experimented at the Munich Research Reactor (FRM). As a post-doctoral student , he was an NRC Fellow at AECL Nuclear Laboratories in Chalk River, Canada. From 1969 he was an assistant at the LMU Munich, completed his habilitation in 1970 and became a scientific adviser and professor there in 1971, experimenting at the FRM and the joint accelerator of the LMU and TU Munich.

In 1973 he became a full professor at the University of Heidelberg.

He conducted research at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics , at GSI Darmstadt and, since 1983, at CERN . At CERN he was on the R807 / 808 experiment of the Intersecting Storage Ring (ISR) and spokesman for NA34-2 (Helios) and NA45 / CERES and from 2003 a member of NA60 at the Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS). From 1992 to 1999 he was scientific director of the GSI in Darmstadt. There he initiated, among other things, tumor therapy with carbon ions with patient irradiation at the GSI, in cooperation with the Radiological Clinic of Heidelberg University and the German Cancer Research Center in Heidelberg. In 2004 he retired.

His experiments concerned, among other things, atomic physics (quasi-molecules in low-energy heavy ion collisions), nuclear fission (form isomers and induction by heavy ion collisions) and quark-gluon plasma in high-energy heavy ion collisions at CERN . In 1983/84, 1990/91 and 2003/04 he spent a sabbatical year at CERN. In 1996 he chaired the International Conference on Quark Matter in Heidelberg.

He also dealt with Hans Günter Dosch and others with the physics and neurophysiology of the early processing of central musical parameters in the brain, such as pitch and tone spectrum. He has been playing the piano since childhood.

He has been a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences since 2000 . He gave the Loeb Lecture at Harvard. In 1999 he received the Werner Heisenberg Medal from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation .

Fonts

Reactions between heavy atomic nuclei - present and future developments. Physikalische Blätter, Volume 37, 1981, No. 7, p. 199 ( online ).
Do good physics with existing equipment. Physikalische Blätter, Volume 49, 1993, pp. 46-48 ( online ).
Nuclear Fission. Rev. Mod. Phys. 46, 1974, pp. 773-787 ( online ).
Spectroscopic Properties of Fission Isomers. , with V. Metag et al., Phys. Reports 65, 1980, pp. 1-41 ( online ).
NA60: In Hot Pursuit of Thermal Dileptons. , with S. Damjanovic and R. Shahoyan, CERN Courier 11/2009, pp. 31–34 ( online ).

Web links

Individual evidence

↑ Specht u. a .: Precise bombardment with heavy ions. Ruperto Carola, 3/95 ( online ).
↑ Woodpecker: ionization of inner electron shells with almost adiabatic collisions of heavy ions. Zeitschrift für Physik 185, 1965, pp. 301-330 ( doi: 10.1007 / BF01380692 ).
↑ G. Agakiviev et al. CERES: Enhanced Production of Low-Mass Electron Pairs in 200GeV / u S-Au Collisions at the CERN SPS. Phys. Rev. Letter 75, 1995, pp. 1272-1275 ( [1] ).
^ R. Arnaldi et al., NA60: First Measurement of the rho Spectral Function in High Energy Nuclear Collisions. Phys. Rev. Letter 96, 2006, 16302 ( [2] )
^ P. Scheider et al .: Morphology of Heschl's Gyrus reflects enhanced activation in the auditory cortex of musicians. Nature Neuroscience 5, 2002, 688-694 ( [3] )
↑ P. Scheider et al .: Structural and functional asymmetry of lateral Heschl's gyrus reflects pitch perception asymmetry. Nature Neuroscience 8, 2005, 1241-1247 ( [4] )

personal data
SURNAME	Specht, Hans Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 6, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH	Unna

[1] Specht u. a .: Precise bombardment with heavy ions. Ruperto Carola, 3/95 ( online ).

[2] Woodpecker: ionization of inner electron shells with almost adiabatic collisions of heavy ions. Zeitschrift für Physik 185, 1965, pp. 301-330 ( doi: 10.1007 / BF01380692 ).

[3] G. Agakiviev et al. CERES: Enhanced Production of Low-Mass Electron Pairs in 200GeV / u S-Au Collisions at the CERN SPS. Phys. Rev. Letter 75, 1995, pp. 1272-1275 ( [1] ).

[4] R. Arnaldi et al., NA60: First Measurement of the rho Spectral Function in High Energy Nuclear Collisions. Phys. Rev. Letter 96, 2006, 16302 ( [2] )

[5] P. Scheider et al .: Morphology of Heschl's Gyrus reflects enhanced activation in the auditory cortex of musicians. Nature Neuroscience 5, 2002, 688-694 ( [3] )

[6] P. Scheider et al .: Structural and functional asymmetry of lateral Heschl's gyrus reflects pitch perception asymmetry. Nature Neuroscience 8, 2005, 1241-1247 ( [4] )