Henning Genz

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Henning Genz (born February 28, 1938 in Braunschweig ; † September 22, 2006 ) was a German theoretical elementary particle physicist and physics author.

life and work

After graduating from high school in Hameln in 1958, Genz studied physics and mathematics at the University of Göttingen and at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he graduated in 1965 and in 1968 with Fritz Bopp with a thesis on the definition and interpretation of multi-path operators in relativistic scattering theories received his doctorate. As a postdoc, he did research at the University of Hamburg and at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBL) until 1970 . From 1970 he was a scientific assistant (habilitation 1972) and from 1974 professor for theoretical physics at the University of Karlsruhe . In 2003 he retired.

Genz's specialty was elementary particle physics. But he is best known as the author of popular science books on physics, beginning with a book on symmetry in physics and the natural sciences. Genz also wrote regularly for Spectrum of Science and made computer-generated scientific films early on (e.g. on soliton equations in the 1970s ). Two more popular science books were in preparation when he died.

Fonts

  • Thought experiments , Wiley / VCH 1999, rororo 2005, ISBN 3499619709 (an essay of the same name appeared in 1996 in Issue 2 of Physics in Our Time).
  • How time came into the world - the emergence of an illusion of order and chaos , Hanser 1996, rororo 1999, ISBN 349960731X .
  • Symmetry - Bauplan der Natur , Piper 1987, Piper Taschenbuch 1991, 2000, ISBN 3492115799 .
  • with R. Decker: Symmetry and Symmetry Breaking in Physics , Vieweg, Teubner 1991, ISBN 3528085584 .
  • Principles of Symmetry in Physics , Springer 1998.
  • Nothing but nothing - the physics of vacuum , Wiley-VCH 2004.
  • The discovery of nothing - emptiness and abundance in the universe , Hanser 1994, rororo 1999, ISBN 3499607298 (English translation: Nothingness - the science of empty space , Reading 1998).
  • with Ernst Peter Fischer : What Professor Kuckuck did not know yet - the natural sciences in Thomas Mann's novels , selected, commented on and brought up to date, rororo 2004, ISBN 3499615800 .
  • How the laws of nature create reality. About physics and reality , Hanser 2002, rororo 2004.
  • Was it a god? Chance, necessity and creativity in the development of the universe , Hanser 2006, rororo 2008.
  • Elementary particles , Fischer compact, 2003, ISBN 3596153549 .

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personal data
SURNAME Genz, Henning
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theoretical elementary particle physicist and physics author
DATE OF BIRTH February 28, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Braunschweig
DATE OF DEATH September 22, 2006