Harald Friedrich (physicist)
Harald Friedrich (born May 19, 1947 in Berlin ; † January 29, 2017 ) was a German physicist who dealt with theoretical atomic physics .
Career
Friedrich grew up in Australia, studied physics at the University of Kiel and the University of Freiburg . He received his doctorate in 1975 at the University of Münster with a thesis on the microscopic description of the scattering of light and medium-weight nuclei and was a post-doctoral student at the University of Oxford . In 1980 he completed his habilitation at the University of Münster and was a Heisenberg fellow at Caltech from 1981 to 1983 . He taught at the universities of Munich and Tübingen before becoming professor at the Technical University of Munich in 1987 .
Among other things, he was visiting scientist at the Institute for Theoretical Atomic Physics of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and at the Australian National University in Canberra .
Friedrich initially dealt with theoretical nuclear physics before switching to atomic physics. Here he has dealt - partly with his doctoral student Dieter Wintgen - with quantum chaos phenomena in highly excited atoms and their semiclassical treatment since the 1980s . He is also known from a textbook on theoretical atomic physics.
Fonts
- with J. Trost: Working with WKB waves far from the semiclassical limit. In: Physics Reports. Volume 397, 2004, pp. 359-449.
- with G. Jacoby and CG Meister: Quantum reflection by Casimir-van der Waals potential tails. In: Physical Review A. Volume 65, 2002, p. 032902.
- with D. Wintgen: The hydrogen atom in a uniform magnetic field - an example of chaos. In: Physics Reports. Volume 183, 1989, pp. 37-79.
- with B. Buck and C. Wheatley: Local potential models for the scattering of complex nuclei. In: Nuclear Physics A. Volume 275, 1977, pp. 246-268.
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Theoretical atomic physics. Springer, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-540-52982-9 , 2nd edition, 1994, ISBN 978-3-540-58267-0 .
- English edition: Theoretical Atomic Physics. Springer, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-540-54179-9 ; 4th edition, 2017, ISBN 978-3-319-47767-1 .
- with Bruno Eckhardt (Ed.): Classical and semiclassical quantum dynamics in atoms. (= Lecture Notes in Physics. 485). Springer, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-540-63004-X .
- Microscopic description of the scattering of light and medium-weight nuclei , [Münster] 1974 DNB 751203076 (Dissertation University of Münster (Westphalia), Department of Physics, 1974, 99 pages).
Web links
- Professor profiles: Friedrich Harald . at professoren.tum.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Harald Friedrich's obituary notice. sueddeutsche.de , February 2, 2017, accessed on February 3, 2017 .
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SURNAME | Friedrich, Harald |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 19, 1947 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
DATE OF DEATH | 29th January 2017 |