Max Georg Huber
Max Georg Huber (born June 25, 1937 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † March 20, 2017 in Bonn ) was a German physicist . He was a professor at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and at the University of Bonn; he was its rector from 1992 to 1997. Huber was for many years Vice-President of the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
Life
Max Huber attended the modern language grammar school in Überlingen from 1948 to 1957 , where he graduated from high school in 1957. After studying mathematics and physics at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , he received his diploma in 1962 and received his doctorate two years later with Hans Marschall with a thesis on theoretical physics. After working as an assistant in Freiburg and Frankfurt as well as research stays in the USA, he completed his habilitation in 1968 at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main with a thesis on theoretical many-particle physics.
After a substitute chair at the University of Heidelberg (1968/69), Huber taught from 1969 to 1983 as a full professor for theoretical physics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg . Subsequently, until his retirement in 2002, he was Professor of Theoretical Nuclear Physics at the University of Bonn and Director of the Institute for Theoretical Nuclear Physics founded by Konrad Bleuler in 1960, today's Helmholtz Institute for Radiation and Nuclear Physics at Bonn University.
Several research stays between 1970 and 1992 took him to MIT , Los Alamos and the Laue-Langevin Institute in Grenoble. Huber's successor in Bonn was Ulf-G. Meißner , who until then worked for the Jülich nuclear research facility .
From 1988 to 1992 he was Vice Rector and from 1992 to 1997 Rector of the University of Bonn. From 1996 to 2011 he also held the vice-presidency of the German Academic Exchange Service ( DAAD ). From February to June 2010 and again from February to December 2011 he headed the DAAD as acting president. Since 1998 he has been 'Federal Government Commissioner for International University Marketing'; from 2000 to 2006 he was also the German representative on the NATO Science Committee .
Huber was a co-founder of the Bonn University Club, its chairman from 2002 to 2013. He was also involved in the Lions Club Bonn-Bad Godesberg.
Max Huber was married to Marianne geb. Klepper; there was a son from the marriage. Huber is buried in the Röttgen cemetery (Bonn) .
honors and awards
- Honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Science at Istanbul University (1993)
- Order of Merit of the Italian Republic ("Commendatore" 1994, "Grande Ufficiale" 2003)
- French Order of Merit Ordre national du Mérite ("L'Officier", 1994)
- Venezuelan Order of Merit "Andres Bello" (Bande de Honor, 1999)
- Honorary Doctorate from the University of New South Wales in Sydney (2001)
- Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (2012)
- Maecenas medal from the Bonn University Club
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Obituaries from Max Huber , Generalanzeiger Bonn, accessed on March 31, 2017
- ↑ DAAD news: Long-time DAAD Vice President Professor Max Huber is dead , by Margret Wintermantel and Dorothea Rüland , accessed on March 22, 2017
- ^ DAAD says goodbye to Vice President Professor Max Huber , press release of December 15, 2011, accessed on July 17, 2012.
- ^ Minister Schulze hands over the Cross of Merit 1st Class to Professor Huber , press release of July 17, 2012, accessed on July 17, 2012.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Huber, Max Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist, university professor and rector of the University of Bonn |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 25, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiburg in Breisgau |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th March 2017 |
| Place of death | Bonn |