Klaus Heinloth

Klaus Heinloth (born June 26, 1935 in Weilheim in Upper Bavaria ; † July 15, 2010 ) was a German experimental physicist and professor at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . He was initially active in the field of particle physics and later dealt with questions of energy supply and climate protection at the interface between science and politics . He was a member of the IPCC .

Heinloth completed his diploma in 1959 at the Technical University of Munich under Georg Joos with a thesis on the electrostatics of dust particles . Two years later, Heinz Maier-Leibnitz did his doctorate on the scattering of subthermal neutrons on water at the same university. He then worked at the University of Hamburg (1961), MIT (1961–62) and at the DESY accelerator in Hamburg until 1973. He completed his habilitation in the field of particle physics at the University of Hamburg in 1972. In 1973 he was awarded the title Professor appointed at the University of Bonn. He was temporarily a Research Associate at CERN , where he researched the photoproduction of mesonic states. In Bonn he worked at the electron synchrotron a . a. with the electrical production of pions at extreme forward angles, the SAPHIR experiment at the Bonn accelerator ELSA and the ZEUS experiment, which was run at the Hamburg accelerator DESY .

Since 1979 Heinloth has been increasingly concerned with the question of energy supply. From 1984 to 1985 he headed the Energy Section of the German Physical Society . His advocacy for a more sustainable energy supply and for the protection of the climate resulted in numerous other activities.From 1987 to 1994 he was a member of the Enquete Commission on Protection of the Earth's Atmosphere of the German Bundestag and from 1988 to 1991 a member of the Federal Government's Climate Advisory Council. From 1988 to 1995 he worked for the United Nations in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) as a delegate of the federal government and as lead author, and from 2003 to 2006 he was chairman of the IUPAP Working Group on Energy.

Stefan Heinloth , a German business manager and author, is a son of Klaus Heinloth.

Awards and honors

• 1995 Wilhelm- and Else-Heraeus-Prize for a research contract "Compatible supply and use of energy"
• since 1998 member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts
• 1999 Robert Mayer Prize from the VDI Society for Energy Technology (today: VDI Society for Energy and Environment)

Books

• Bernd Dieckmann and Klaus Heinloth: Energy . 2nd Edition. Teubner Verlag, 1997, ISBN 978-3-519-13057-4 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-663-01595-6 (1st edition 1983).
• Klaus Heinloth: The energy question - demand and potential, use, risks and costs . Vieweg Verlag, 2003, ISBN 978-3-528-13106-7 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-322-80322-1 .
• Klaus Heinloth: Food and Energy . Schöningh, 2008, ISBN 978-3-506-76588-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} portrait of the author . In: Werner Martienssen and Dieter Röß (eds.): Physics in the 21st century: Essays on the state of physics . Springer, 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-05191-3 , pp. 412 ( google.de ).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f g h i j k} Fritz Klein and Norbert Wermes: Obituary for Klaus Heinloth, p. 48 . In: Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (Hrsg.): Physik Journal . tape 9 , no. October 12 , 2010, p. 48 ( pro-physik.de ).
3. ↑ Dorothea Carr, Department 8 - University Communication, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn: Renewable energies need a chance. 1998, accessed September 3, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Stefan Heinloth: Practical Guide for Managers , Hanser Verlag, 2011, ISBN 978-3-44642578-1 .
5. ↑ Klaus Heinloth: The energy question - demand and potential, use, risks and costs . 1st edition. Vieweg Verlag, 1997, ISBN 978-3-528-03106-0 , p. VII (introduction) .
6. ^ Robert Mayer Prize Winner until 2005. (pdf) VDI-Gesellschaft, accessed on September 3, 2018 .