Reinhard Stock

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Reinhard Stock (* 1938 ) is a German experimental physicist who deals with heavy ion physics.

Life

Stock studied at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg , where he did his doctorate on heavy ion reactions under Rudolf Bock . He then did a post-doc at the University of Pennsylvania , where he worked on biophysics . From 1985 until his retirement in 2004 he was professor at the Institute for Nuclear Physics at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main , where he was temporarily head of the institute. He has been a Senior Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) since 2007 .

Stock did pioneering work with Hans Gutbrod and Rudolf Bock in the construction of relativistic heavy ion experiments in Berkeley (Bevalac, with Arthur Poskanzer ), continued from the mid-1980s at CERN with higher energies. He was the long-time speaker of the NA49 experiment there. In the 1990s, they succeeded in detecting a quark-gluon plasma in collisions of lead nuclei , as CERN announced in 1999.

From 1999 to 2004 he was chairman of the Scientific Council of the GSI Helmholtz Center for Heavy Ion Research .

In 1988 he received the Robert Wichard Pohl Prize with Gutbrod. In 1989 he received the Leibniz Prize. In 2008 he and Walter Greiner received the Lise Meitner Prize for pioneering work on the establishment of relativistic heavy ion physics , in particular for the experimental confirmation of the shock waves predicted and investigated by Greiner and co-workers and the flow of highly compressed nuclear and quark matter.

Fonts

  • Reinhard Stock (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Applied High Energy and Particle Physics . Wiley / VCH, 2009, ISBN 978-3-527-40691-3 (English).
  • Reinhard Stock (Ed.): Relativistic Heavy Ion Physics (=  Elementary Particles, Nuclei and Atoms . No. 23 ). Springer-Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-01538-0 (English).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Leibniz Prize Winner at Goethe University. uni-frankfurt.de, accessed on April 20, 2019 .
  2. EPS Nuclear Physics Division - Lise Meitner Prize: Prize winners 2014. EPS, accessed on April 20, 2019 (English).