Johannes Zittartz

Johannes Zittartz (born June 14, 1938 in Remscheid ) is a German physicist. He is an emeritus professor for theoretical physics at the University of Cologne .

Johannes Zittartz received his doctorate in 1964 from the University of Cologne under Bernhard Mühlschlegel on the subject of "Functional mean values ​​in statistical physics". 1965–1967 he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh and at the University of California, San Diego , with the later Nobel Prize winner Walter Kohn . In 1970 he was appointed to the professorship at the University of Cologne. He was visiting researcher, each for longer periods, at the CEA de Saclay (France), at the University of California, San Diego, in La Jolla, at Stanford University and at the University of California, Santa Barbara .

His main research areas are statistical physics and solid state physics . Particularly noteworthy are u. a. his contributions to: Bound electron states in random potentials, Kondo effect , inhomogeneous Ising models , exactly solvable fermion models in one dimension and optimum ground states for macroscopic systems.

Many of his students became professors of theoretical physics : Gerd Czycholl , Dietrich Wolf , Michael Schreckenberg , Andreas Klümper , Heiko Rieger , Andreas Schadschneider , Ludger Santen and Nikolaus Rajewsky .

Honors: 1968 Prize for Physics from the Göttingen Academy of Sciences , 1992 Research Prize from the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), 1996 Honorary Professor of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Wrocław, 2013 Honorary Member of the Hungarian Physical Society.

Johannes Zittartz was for many years co-editor of the Zeitschrift für Physik and the book series Lecture Notes in Physics .

Web links

• Literature by and about Johannes Zittartz in the catalog of the German National Library