Rolf Ebert

Rolf Ebert (born September 2, 1926 in Lychen , Mark Brandenburg ; † April 2, 2013 in Lindelbach , Randersacker near Würzburg) was a German physicist . He worked as a full professor for theoretical physics from 1966 until his retirement in 1994 at the University of Würzburg .

Life and work

Rolf Ebert studied physics at the University of Göttingen from 1942 to 1952 . After studying abroad at Cambridge University in England (1952), he did his doctorate in theoretical astrophysics under Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker in 1954 and worked there from 1954 to 1957 as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Physics . He received a Fulbright scholarship for the years 1957 to 1958 for the University Princeton , USA .

Together with S. v. Hörner received the prize of the Society of German Natural Scientists and Doctors for the writing: The formation of stars through condensation of diffuse matter (1960). He was a research assistant at the University of Hamburg with Carl Friedrich von Weizsäcker (1960 to 1963) and the University of Frankfurt am Main (1963 to 1966). He completed his habilitation in theoretical physics at the University of Frankfurt in 1965.

In 1966 he was appointed full professor of theoretical physics at the University of Würzburg, where he set up an internationally recognized working group on theoretical astrophysics. Research stays took him to universities in the USA, Australia and Japan.

Work areas

His areas of work were theoretical astrophysics in the broadest sense (for example on star and planet formation; space-time structure ; general relativity ; cosmology, neutron and hyperon stars ), but also on the theory of nuclear fission and thermodynamics.

Works in cooperation emerged in particular

• on the particle horizon in Friedmann Universen (with Manfred Trümper ),
• on the behavior of differentially rotating gravitating gas clouds (with F. Schmitz),
• on the Carnot cycle in general relativity (with Rüdiger Göbel ),
• on the properties of neutron stars (half a year before their discovery in 1967), on hyperon star matter, on the Weyl problem and the properties of perfect quantum gases (with Eberhard Hilf ),
• on the theory of atomic fission (with RW Hasse).

Until recently, Ebert worked actively on one of the essential problems of modern theoretical physics, the space-time structure in quantum field theory .

He was married to Jorinde Ebert (née Cramer) and has two children: Anselm Ebert (* 1975) and Tara Patzelt (* 1977).

Some academic staff and students

Reinhard Breuer , Mounib El Eid ( American University Beirut , Lebanon), Werner Dietz, Rüdiger Göbel ( University of Duisburg-Essen ), Harald von Groote; Eberhard Hilf , Rainer W. Hasse (1967–1969), Klaus Köbke, Roland Rüdiger and Friedrich Schmitz.

Fonts (selection)

Ebert has published around 150 scientific papers and book reviews.

1. Rolf Ebert: Impressions of the IAU-Symposium 200. in: H. Zinnecker and R. Mathieu: IAU Symposium 200. 2001. bibcode : 2001IAUS..200..573E
2. Rolf Ebert: The production of turbulence by gravitational instabilities in self-gravitating differentially rotating disks. Astronomy and Astrophysics, Volume 286, pp. 997-1005, 1994. bibcode : 1994A & A ... 286..997E
3. Rolf Ebert, M. Trümper: Particle horizons and time dependence of red-shifts in Friedmann universes. in: PG Bergman, E. ~ J. Fenyves, L. Motz: Seventh Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1975 Volume 262. bibcode : 1975NYASA.262..470E
4. Rolf Ebert: A magnetohydrodynamic model of the formation of planetary systems. Communications of the Astronomical Society Hamburg, 1975, Volume 36, p. 115. bibcode : 1975MitAG..36..115E
5. S. von Horns, GR Burbidge, FD. Kahn, R. Ebert, S. Temesvary: The formation of stars by condensation of diffuse matter. Springer-Verlag, 1959. bibcode : 1959evsd.book ..... V

Web links

Author IDs from Rolf Ebert

• Rolf Ebert. ID in Inspire ID: INSPIRE-00295000 on inspirehep.net
• Rolf Ebert. Mathematics Genealogy Project ID: 142565 at genealogy.ams.org

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Spektrum.de , accessed on April 8, 2013.
2. ↑ In this context, the Weyl problem means the problem of finding the distribution of the eigenvalues ​​of the wave equation in a finite volume under given boundary conditions
3. ↑ Siebold-forum.de ( Memento of the original from January 22, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed April 8, 2013.