Herbert Wagner (physicist)

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Herbert Wagner (born April 6, 1935 ) is a German physicist. He is professor emeritus for theoretical physics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich (LMU).

Life

Herbert Wagner received his doctorate in 1963 under Wilhelm Brenig at the Technical University of Munich on the subject of "Two-Particle Approximation for Fermion Systems with Pair Correlations". He then did research as a postdoc a. a. at Cornell University with David Mermin . He was the director of the institute at Forschungszentrum Jülich before he was appointed to the professorship at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich (LMU) in the second half of the 1970s.

His scientific work is very diverse, with a focus on theoretical solid-state physics and statistical physics . The Mermin-Wagner theorem , in which the thermal stability of two-dimensional structures, for example thin magnetic and crystalline layers, is examined, is particularly well known . Published in 1966 by Herbert Wagner together with N. David Mermin , this theorem is not only a real citation classic today, but is in fact of immense importance in the theoretical and experimental analysis of such two-dimensional systems.

In the recent past Herbert Wagner has mainly dealt with the morphology and dynamics of cosmic structures.

In 1992 Herbert Wagner received an honorary doctorate from the University of Essen . For 2016 he was awarded the Max Planck Medal, the highest scientific award from the German Physical Society (DPG).

literature

  • ND Mermin, H. Wagner: Absence of Ferromagnetism or Antiferromagnetism in One- or Two-Dimensional Isotropic Heisenberg Models , Phys. Rev. Lett. 17: 1133-1136 (1966); doi: 10.1103 / PhysRevLett.17.1133

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Winner of the Max Planck Medal 2016: Herbert Wagner Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München - lecture - title: "Morphometry material structures" University of Regensburg, March 10, 2016, doi: 10.5446 / 19335 .
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1935