Klaus Winter (physicist)

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Klaus Winter (born December 21, 1930 in Hamburg ; † February 9, 2015 ) was a German physicist who specialized in the field of particle physics , especially neutrino physics .

Biographical

Winter studied at the university in his hometown, where he received his doctorate in 1958 and completed his habilitation in 1963 . In 1973 he received a professorship at the University of Hamburg. Winter was then able to research at CERN for a few years . He was later an honorary professor at the Institute for Physics at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

From the 1970s, he was a leader in the CHARM Collaboration (an abbreviation of the experiment represents C ERN, H amburg, A msterdam, R om, M oscow) at CERN, inter alia, the nucleon-neutrino interaction and electron Investigated neutrino scattering via neutral currents. At times he was the spokesman for the experimental group. Among other things, with Charm II they succeeded in precisely determining the electroweak mixing angle .

In 1993 he received the Stern-Gerlach Medal for his pioneering research, and in 1997 the Bruno Pontecorvo Prize .

Publications

  • Experimental studies of weak interactions . In: John Krige (Ed.): History of CERN , Vol. 3, North Holland 1996
  • Klaus Winter (Ed.): Neutrino Physics , Cambridge University Press 1991, 2000
    • therein by Klaus Winter: Neutrino reactions and the structure of the weak neutral current
  • Klaus Winter, Guido Altarelli (ed.): Neutrino Mass , Springer 2003

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary , Tribune de Genève , February 13, 2015, Website Hommages , accessed February 20, 2015.
  2. ↑ Attribution on the homepage of the IfP of the HUB; accessed on June 2, 2010  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.physik.hu-berlin.de  
personal data
SURNAME Winter, Klaus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 2015