Joachim Heintze

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Joachim Heintze (born July 20, 1926 in Berlin ; † March 31, 2012 in Heidelberg ) was a German experimental elementary particle physicist .

Heintze attended the Schillergymnasium in Berlin and did Reich labor service and military service in 1944/45. From June to December 1945 he completed an apprenticeship as a radio mechanic in Schwerin. From 1946 he studied physics at the TU Berlin up to the intermediate diploma and then at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Göttingen and from the summer semester 1949 at the University of Göttingen with the diploma 1951. He received his doctorate in 1953 at the University of Heidelberg with Otto Haxel ( On the natural radioactivity of the nuclei vanadium 50, indium 113, tellurium 123 and potassium 40 ) and qualified as a professor in 1958 (on electron spin polarization during beta decay ). After that he was at CERN for a few years. From 1953 to 1959 he was a research assistant at the Second Physics Institute in Heidelberg. From 1959 to 1964 he was at CERN (from 1961 as Senior Physicist). In 1963 he and Volker Soergel received the Physics Prize of the German Physical Society ( Gustav Hertz Prize ) for work on measuring the rare beta decay of the pion . In 1964 he succeeded Hans Kopfermann as professor at the University of Heidelberg and director of the 1st Physics Institute. Together with Volker Soergel, he ensured that new types of particle detectors for the accelerators at CERN and DESY were developed at his institute in Heidelberg. In 1972/73 he was dean of the faculty and during this time the Institute for Environmental Physics was founded and the new lecture halls for physics were built at Neuenheimer Feld. In 1991 he retired.

In 1992 he received the Max Born Prize .

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  1. ↑ Physik Journal, November 2012 edition, obituary, Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, page 59
  2. ↑ biography in Ingo Appenzeller u. a. (Ed.), Heidelberg physicists report, Volume 1, Heidelberg University Library 2017, p. 99. In it also by Heintze 43 years of elementary particle physics
personal data
SURNAME Heintze, Joachim
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 2012
Place of death Heidelberg