Rainer Scharf
Rainer Scharf (* 1956 ; † 2019 ) was a German physicist and science journalist.
Rainer Scharf studied physics in Düsseldorf and did his doctorate in 1987 under Fritz Haake in Essen on quantum chaos ( quantum chaos and symmetry of kicked angular momentum dynamics ). As a post-doctoral student he was in Milan, at the Los Alamos National Laboratory , in Hanover and Como. He then went into business for himself as a science journalist. He lived on a farm in the Westerwald .
He was a regular author of the Physik Journal and for various publications and the online portal (pro-physik.de) of the DPG , for which he published the Physics 2001 memorandum, among other things, and has worked as a freelance journalist for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung since 1996 .
He was interested in the philosophy and history of physics and published a book on the Nobel Prize in Physics.
literature
- Maike Pfalz, Alexander Pawlak, Kerstin Sonnabend, Bernhard Nunner: Obituary for Rainer Scharf, Physik Journal, April 2019
Fonts
- Excellent physics. The Nobel Prize and the History of a Science, Bückle and Böhm, 2012
- 100 years of the Helmholtz Fund eV and 40 years of the Helmholtz Prize, PTB Mitteilungen 4, 2013
- with Gerd Ulrich Nienhaus, Robert Steegers: Access to a university teaching career in physics at German universities: habilitation, junior professorship, head of junior research group; a study by the German Physical Society eV, Bad Honnef 2010
- as editor and co-author: Physics: Topics, meaning and perspectives of physical research; Memorandum for the year of physics; a report to society, politics and industry, DPG 2001
Web links
- Literature by and about Rainer Scharf in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage
- Biography at Bueckle und Böhm Verlag
- FAZ.net
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sharp, Rainer |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist and science journalist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1956 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2019 |