Richard M. Weiner

Richard M. Weiner

Richard M. Weiner (born February 6, 1930 in Czernowitz ) is a Romanian-German theoretical physicist .

Life

He survived the Jewish ghetto in Chernivtsi. In 1958 he received his doctorate from the University of Bucharest . He wanted to leave Romania, but was classified as refusenik . In 1969 he managed to escape and came to CERN . After further stays at the Universities of Bonn , Indiana (Bloomington) and Imperial College (London) , he was appointed professor for theoretical physics at the University of Marburg . He researched u. a. in the USA at the Brookhaven National Laboratory , Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory , Los Alamos National Laboratory and since 1995 in Paris at the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique , Orsay.

Weiner is the author of over 180 scientific publications. He predicted the isomer shift , which has found applications in many areas of physics, as well as the hot spot effect in particle physics. He made important contributions to Bose-Einstein correlations and wrote the first and so far only specialist book. He also published two science fiction novels.

Works

• Introduction to Bose-Einstein Correlations and Subatomic Interferometry. Wiley, Chichester 2000, ISBN 0-471-96922-2 .
• The Miniatom Project: A Science and Detective Novel. Verlag LiteraturWwissenschaft.de, Marburg 2006, ISBN 3-936134-14-6 ( reviews ).
• Analogies in Physics and Life: A Scientific Autobiography. World Scientific, Singapore 2008, ISBN 978-981-270-470-2 ( PDF ).
• Riot of the thinking computers, novel. Verlag LiteraturWwissenschaft.de, Marburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-936134-41-4 .
• Diary of a thinking computer - continuation of a novel. Verlag LiteraturWwissenschaft.de, Marburg 2020, ISBN 978-3-936134-72-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Richard M. Weiner in the catalog of the German National Library
• Works by and about Richard M. Weiner at Open Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kürschner's German Scholar Calendar . 20th edition (2005). Vol. 3, p. 3784.