Petr Vogel

Petr Vogel (also Peter Vogel ; born August 12, 1937 in Prague ) is a Czech-American theoretical physicist who mainly deals with nuclear physics.

Vogel's family was in the Theresienstadt concentration camp . After studying technical physics at the Technical University in Prague , he worked from 1960 at the Nuclear Research Institute of the Academy of Sciences in Prague. During a summer school that took place in Slovakia in 1962 , he met Russian physicists, including Vadim Solowjow , who offered him a position at the United Institute for Nuclear Research in Dubna . It was there that Vogel continued the postgraduate studies he had begun in Prague and completed his doctorate in 1966 . He then returned to the Prague Nuclear Research Institute. After the end of the Prague Spring in 1968 he went to the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen, where he worked until 1969 and then to the Norwegian University of Bergen . He has been researching at the California Institute of Technology since 1970 , where he initially worked with Felix Boehm .

In addition to research on nuclear structure, he dealt with neutrino physics (also in the context of double beta decay ), questions of time-reversal invariance and parity violations in nuclear physics (with Boehm) and muonic atoms (with Aage Winther).

In 1996 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society .

Fonts

• with Felix Boehm : Physics of massive neutrinos. Cambridge University Press, 1992.

Web links

• Oral History Interview

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science. Thomson Gale, 2004. There as Peter Vogel.