Hermann Haken (physicist)

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Hermann Haken with the order Pour le Mérite (2014)

Hermann Haken (born July 12, 1927 in Leipzig ) is a German physicist and university professor . He is professor emeritus of the chair for theoretical physics at the University of Stuttgart and founder of synergetics .

Life

After studying mathematics and physics in Halle (Saale) and Erlangen and completing his doctorate in mathematics at the University of Erlangen , he made guest stays in Great Britain and the USA .

In 1960 he was appointed to a chair for theoretical physics at the University of Stuttgart ( retirement 1995).

He dealt with nonlinear optics (especially laser physics ), solid state physics , statistical physics , group theory . Hook quickly expanded his institute into an international center for laser theory after Theodore Maiman realized the first experimental laser in May 1960. In 1962, Haken presented a completed theory of the laser that attracted international attention to the institute. The interpretation of the laser principle as the self-organization of non-equilibrium systems led to the development of synergetics in the late 1960s , the founder of which Haken is known today. He is the author of several books, including an Introduction to Synergetics, and the editor of a series of books on the subject. He later turned to uses of synergetics to study the function of the brain.

Hook became a member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences in 1982, a member of the Leopoldina in 1982, a member of the Braunschweigische Wissenschaftliche Gesellschaft in 1988 , a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences in 1989 and a member of the Academia Europaea and the European Academy of Sciences and Arts in 1991 . In 1984 he was accepted into the Order Pour le Mérite for Science and the Arts , and in 1986 he was awarded the Federal Cross of Merit with a star . In 1990 he received the Max Planck Medal of the German Physical Society and in 1994 the Lorenz Oken Medal of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors . He has received honorary doctorates from the University of Essen , the Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia , the Florida Atlantic University , the University of Regensburg and the Technical University of Munich .

Fonts

  • with Peter J. Plath u. a .: Contributions to the history of synergetics. General principles of self-organization in nature and society , Springer Spectrum, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-12951-4 .
  • with P. Levi: Synergetic agents: From Multi-Robot Systems to Molecular Robotics , Wiley-VCH , 2012, ISBN 978-3-527-41166-5 .
  • Brain Dynamics: synchronization and activity dynamics in pulse-coupled neural nets with delay and noise , Springer Verlag 2007 (Springer Series in Synergetics)
  • Synergetic computers and cognition: a top down approach to neural nets , Springer, 1991, 2nd edition 2004
  • Molecular Physics and Quantum Chemistry - Introduction to Theoretical and Experimental Basics , Springer 1992, 5th edition 2006
  • Hermann hook, Hans Christoph Wolf : atomic and quantum physics . Springer-Verlag , 8th edition, 2003, ISBN 3-540-02621-5 .
  • Information and Self-Organization: a macroscopic approach to complex systems , Springer, 3rd edition 2006 (Springer Series in Synergetics)
  • with Günther Schiepek: Synergetics in Psychology: Understanding and Shaping Self-Organization , Göttingen, Hogrefe 2006
  • Nature's secrets of success: Synergetics, the doctrine of interaction , DVA 1981, Ullstein 1988, Rowohlt 1995
  • The Self-Structuring of Matter: Synergetics in the Inanimate World , Vieweg 1991
  • with Maria Haken-Krell: The emergence of biological information and order , Scientific Book Society 1995
  • Synergetics: Introduction and Advanced Topics , Springer 2004 (first as Advanced Synergetics: Instability Hierarchies of self organizing systems and devices , Springer, 1983)
  • Synergetics, an Introduction: Non-equilibrium Phase Transitions and Self-Organization in Physics, Chemistry, and Biology , Springer, 1977
  • Published by: Cooperative Phenomena , Springer 1973
  • Licht und Materie , Vol. 1: Elements of Quantum Optics, 1979, 2nd edition, Bibliographisches Institut (BI), Mannheim 1989, Vol. 2: Laser, BI 1981
  • Laser Theory , Springer 1984, reprint from S.Flügge (editor), Handbuch der Physik, Vol. 25 / 2c, 1970,
  • Quantum field theory of the solid , Teubner 1973
  • Editor: Excitons at high density , Springer 1975

literature

  • Jürgen Kriz & Wolfgang Tschacher (eds.): Synergetics as a folder - the structuring effect of the interdisciplinary ideas of Hermann Hakens. Lengerich: Pabst Science Publishers, 2017, ISBN 978-3-95853-330-1 .
  • Bernd Kröger: Hermann Haken and the early years of synergetics , Logos Verlag Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-8325-3561-2
  • Hermann Haken , in: Internationales Biographisches Archiv 17/1992 from April 13, 1992, in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Member entry by Hermann Haken (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 10, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Hook, Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist, professor emeritus for theoretical physics at the University of Stuttgart
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig