Peter Brix

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Peter Brix (born October 20, 1918 in Kappeln ; † January 21, 2007 in Heidelberg ) was a German nuclear physicist .

Life

Brix was born in Kappeln an der Schlei in Schleswig-Holstein in 1918 and graduated from high school there in 1936. From 1936 to 1940 he studied physics in Kiel , Berlin and Rochester in the USA . From 1940 to 1944 he had to do military service in the Wehrmacht. From 1944 to 1952 he was assistant to the experimental physicist Hans Kopfermann in Göttingen . He received his doctorate in 1946 with Wilhelm Walcher with a thesis on the photographic effect of medium-speed protons and completed his habilitation in 1952. He then went to Ottawa (Canada) as a postdoc . He then became a private lecturer at the University of Heidelberg . In 1957 he founded the Institute for Nuclear Physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt , of which he was director until 1972. Then he was director at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg . In 1986 he retired. In 1975 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina Scholars' Academy . Since 1973 he was a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

Scientifically, Brix was primarily concerned with the experimental determination of nuclear radii , nuclear moments and nuclear excitations and later dealt with Mössbauer spectroscopy in nuclear and solid state physics. In his later creative years he turned to heavy ion physics . The DALINAC electron linear accelerator in Darmstadt is primarily due to his initiative, as is the post-accelerator at the MPI for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg. He was instrumental in founding the Society for Heavy Ion Research (GSI) in Darmstadt.

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SURNAME Brix, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nuclear physicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Kappeln
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 2007
Place of death Heidelberg