Max Klein (physicist)

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Max Klein (* 1951 ) is a German elementary particle physicist and university professor . He is a professor at the University of Liverpool , where he holds the Chair of Particle Physics .

Klein studied at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1969 and received his doctorate in 1977 at the Institute for High Energy Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Zeuthen on the subject of "Resonances as a cause of correlation in high-energy many-particle reactions". From 1973 to 1991 he conducted research at the Institute for High Energy Physics in Zeuthen, experimenting from 1977 at the United Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna and from the 1980s at DESY and CERN (where he was for the first time in 1979/80). He reported on these years in a 2009 Nature article. Some biographical information can be found in the autobiography of his father, the historian Fritz Klein .

Klein worked at DESY from 1992 to 2006 . There he had been a member of the H1 collaboration at the HERA storage ring since 1985 , which he headed from 2002 to 2006. He has been a professor in Liverpool since 2006.

He is a member of the ATLAS collaboration at CERN .

He investigated the internal structure of protons with deep inelastic electron scattering (generally lepton - nucleon scattering) . In such experiments at DESY, in which he was involved, a surprisingly high proportion of gluon was observed in the 1990s. Such experiments are planned with even higher resolution at the LHeC (Large Hadron Electron Collider), which is currently being planned, of the LHC at CERN, to whose coordination group Klein belongs.

For his part in determining the asymmetry of the interaction of polarized positive and negative muons through the BCDMS collaboration at CERN, Klein was awarded the Max von Laue Medal of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in 1984 .

In 2013 he received the Max Born Prize for fundamental experimental contributions to the elucidation of the structure of the proton by means of deep inelastic scattering .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Max Klein, "When the times were changing", Nature Physics 5, 852-854 (2009)
  2. ^ Fritz Klein, "Inside and Outside" (Verlag S. Fischer, 2000), ISBN 3-10-039609-X .
  3. ↑ LHeC Coordination Group , accessed on February 3, 2018
  4. ↑ Small, renaissance in sight The LHeC project at CERN is intended to continue the success story of deep inelastic scattering. Physik Journal, 2013, No. 9, p. 61
  5. ^ W. Hartkopf, "The Berlin Academy of Sciences - Your Members and Prize Winners", p. 461 (Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 1992), ISBN 3-05-002153-5 .
  6. ↑ Laudation and portrait on the occasion of the Max Born Prize 2013 at DESY
personal data
SURNAME Small, max
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1951