Klaus Lackner
Klaus Stephan Lackner is a German physicist and since 2006 director of the Lenfest Center for Sustainable Energy at the Earth Institute of Columbia University .
Life
Lackner studied physics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . After graduating in 1976, he received his doctorate in theoretical particle physics summa cum laude in 1978 and his dissertation was awarded the Carl Clemm / Carl Haas Foundation Prize in 1980. He then went to the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg as a postdoc , in 1979 as a scholarship holder to Caltech and in 1982/83 to the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center .
His résumé gives no information about the following years; In 1991 the US Department of Energy awarded him the Weapons Recognition of Excellence Award , and in the 1990s Lackner worked for the Los Alamos National Laboratory .
In 2001 he received a chair in geophysics at Columbia University.
He is one of the founders of the Zero Emission Coal Alliance ZECA (see also FutureGen ) and designed self-replicating machines with Christopher Wendt .
Web links
- Earth & Environmental Engineering, Columbia University: Klaus S. Lackner ( Memento from January 6, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ columbia.edu: Klaus S. Lackner
- ↑ Klaus S. Lackner, Christopher H. Wendt: "Exponential growth of large self-replicating machine systems . In: Mathl. Comput. Modeling . 21, No. 10, 1995, pp. 55-81. Doi : 10.1016 / 0895- 7177 (95) 00071-9 .
- ↑ Klaus S. Lackner, Christopher H. Wendt: Self-reproducing machine systems for global scale projects, Document LA-UR-93-2886 . In: 4th International Conference and Exposition on Engineering, Construction and Operations in Space / Conference and Exposition / Demonstrations on Robotic for Challenging Environments, Albuquerque, New Mexico, February 26 - March 3, 1994 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lackner, Klaus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lackner, Klaus Stephan (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |