Horst Schmidt-Böcking

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Horst Werner Schmidt , since 1970 Horst Werner Schmidt-Böcking (born February 13, 1939 in Weidenau ) is a German physicist .

Life

Schmidt-Böcking attended the Fürst-Johann-Moritz-Gymnasium in Siegen-Weidenau from 1951 to 1960 and studied physics at the University of Würzburg from the 1960 summer semester to the 1963 summer semester , where he took his intermediate diploma in March 1963. In the winter semester of 1963 he moved to Heidelberg University , where he passed his diploma examination at the Second Physics Institute in 1966. His diploma thesis on experimental physics dealt with the loss of energy and the reloading of fast heavy ions in solids.

In his doctoral thesis he investigated the level structure of the 17 O core by means of stripping and compound core reactions induced by 6 Li and 7 Li projectiles (PhD 1969). From 1973 he dealt almost exclusively with questions of atomic physics : inner shell ionization and quasi-molecule formation in heavy ion collisions (together with I. Tserruya and R. Schuch). The techniques used were nuclear physics coincidence methods . Since 1974, various spatially resolving detectors have been developed in the working group, e.g. B. parallel plate avalanche counters for GHz ion rates, X-ray detectors based on the parallel plate and "time projection" principle, as well as detectors for the detection of very low-energy ions and electrons with spatially resolving wedge & strip and delay line anodes.

From 1974 he was a university lecturer and from 1977 a temporary professor at the Institute for Nuclear Physics (IKF) at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , where he completed his habilitation in 1978 with a thesis on stopping ions in matter. From 1980 to 1982 he worked at the Hahn-Meitner-Institut and was appointed professor at the University of Frankfurt in 1982, where he stayed until his retirement in 2004.

His fields of work in Frankfurt were the spectroscopy of slow recoil ions. This work then led to the development of the COLTRIMS method (doctoral theses by Joachim Ullrich 1987, Reinhard Dörner 1991 and Volker Mergel 1995 et al.), Where RIMS was used successfully for the first time in 1987 and then in 1989 in proton-helium collisions COLTRIMS. In the following years, the COLTRIMS reaction microscope was further developed into a multi-fragment imaging method, where the pulses of electrons and ions could be measured simultaneously in a multi-coincidence with high pulse resolution. With the COLTRIMS process, numerous “benchmark experiments” were carried out in the following two decades to investigate the multiple ionization of atoms and molecules by ion and electron beams as well as single photons and laser beams.

In 1966 he married Marlies Böcking. In 1967 and 1973, respectively, the daughters Anne and Uta were born.

Energy storage concepts

In 2011, together with Gerhard Luther , he proposed submarine pumped storage power plants in order to cover the storage requirements arising in the course of the energy transition as a result of the use of the volatile renewable energy sources wind energy and solar energy . After tests in Lake Constance had shown the basic functionality of these systems with a prototype, in 2019 he and Luther again proposed a concept based on this, with which large open-cast lignite mines such as the Hambach open-cast mine could be used for large-scale energy storage. Depending on the size of the implemented systems, storage capacities of a few 100 to a few 1000 GWh would be possible according to the concept, the storage costs should be 1 to 2 ct / kWh.

Awards

He was and is

  • Adjunct Professor at Kansas State University, USA (since 1985)
  • Adjunct Professor at Lanzhou University, China (since 1993)
  • "Eminent Scientist" - Fellow at RIKEN / JAPAN 1995
  • Fellow of the American Physics Society (since 1996)
  • Fellow of the Institute of Physics (since 2004)
  • Distinguished Stefan Lyson Professorship (since 2001)
  • Chairman of the German Atomic Physics Society (2002–2005)
  • Chairman of the Research Advisory Board for Synchrotron Radiation at HASYLAB 2001-04

Books

  • with Karin Reich : Otto Stern , physicist, lateral thinker, Nobel Prize winner. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 978-3-942921-23-7 .
  • Atoms, Quanta, and Relativity-A Century after Einstein's Miraculous Year. Special Issue of Journal of Physics B 38 (2005): Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics edited by Hänsch , Schmidt-Böcking, and Walther

Web links

supporting documents

  1. ↑ Hollow spheres store excess wind power . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , April 1, 2011. Accessed May 25, 2012.
  2. ↑ The water battery in the Hambacher Loch . In: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , August 18, 2019. Accessed August 23, 2019.
  3. ↑ Program winter semester 2008/2009. Retrieved September 11, 2011 .
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt-Böcking, Horst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt-Böcking, Horst Werner; Schmidt, Horst Werner (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Siegen -Weidenau