Peter of Brentano
Peter von Brentano (born May 22, 1935 in Zurich ; † September 20, 2019 in Cologne ) was a German experimental nuclear physicist (nuclear spectroscopy ).
The family of Bernard von Brentano was in Switzerland in exile and returned to the Second World War, back to Germany. Peter von Brentano grew up in Wiesbaden . He studied physics at the University of Frankfurt ; a fellow student was Walter Greiner . He turned to nuclear spectroscopy and received his doctorate in 1963 from the University of Heidelberg under Wolfgang Gentner , where he worked at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics . As a post-graduate student, he was in Seattle and Texas. In 1968 he completed his habilitation in Heidelberg and from 1970 until his retirement in 2000 he was a professor in Cologne.
literature
- Rick Casten, Jan Jolie, Ulrich Kneissl, Peter Lieb (Eds.): International Symposium on Nuclear Structure Physics, Celebrating the Career of Peter von Brentano (University of Göttingen 2000), World Scientific 2001.
Web links
- List of publications of his working group at the University of Cologne
- Academic Tree, Peter von Brentano
Individual evidence
- ↑ Birth and career dates in the Kürschner, Deutscher Schehrtenkalender 2009
- ^ Obituary notice from the University of Cologne and his family in the print edition of the Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger No. 226 Saturday / Sunday, 28/29. September 2019 page 02
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SURNAME | Brentano, Peter von |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist |
DATE OF BIRTH | May 22, 1935 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |
DATE OF DEATH | 20th September 2019 |
Place of death | Cologne |