Norbert Schmitz (physicist)

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Norbert Schmitz (* 13. October 1933 in Schiefbahn ) is a German physicist and emeritus professors .

Schmitz grew up in his place of birth Schiefbahn. There he comes from a Catholic family; his father, an administrative officer, was after the Second World War the municipal director of the then large village in the former district of Kempen-Krefeld on the left Lower Rhine . At the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Gymnasium to Krefeld gained Schmitz university entrance. After studying at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and a research stay at the University of Berkeley (USA), he started in September 1961 at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München with the thesis The experimental determination of the cross section for ππ scattering as a function of PhD in energy and further results on ππ interaction from pion generation in pion-nucleon collisions . He then worked as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics in Munich until 1969 . In 1965 he completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) with the text The One-Meson Exchange Model and its application to experimental results on pion nucleon scattering from bubble chamber recordings .

In 969 he was appointed Scientific Member and in 1971 Director at the Max Planck Institute for Physics ( Werner Heisenberg Institute ). In parallel to his work at the Max Planck Institute, he held regular lectures at the TUM Physics Department until 2000; In 1973 he was appointed honorary professor at TUM.

The main field of work of Schmitz was elementary particle physics . In particular, he worked on experiments at the large particle accelerators in Europe ( CERN , DESY ) and in the USA ( Ernest Orlando Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , Fermilab , Brookhaven National Laboratory ). He mainly worked on the physical evaluation of the data obtained with trace detectors ( core emulsions , bubble chambers , streamer and trace drift chambers ).

In addition to more than twenty scientific papers at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, he published the textbook Neutrino Physics (Teubner, Stuttgart 1997).

In 2001 Schmitz retired .

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SURNAME Schmitz, Norbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 13, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Inclined path