Rudolf Grimm

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Rudolf Grimm

Rudolf Grimm (born November 10, 1961 in Mannheim ) is a German-Austrian experimental physicist . He works with ultra-cold atoms and quantum gases and was able to create a Bose-Einstein condensate from molecules with his team as the world's first scientist .

Life

Before his scientific career, Rudolf Grimm was the guitarist of the NDW band Bärchen und die Milchbubis . He completed a physics degree at the University of Hanover , which he completed in 1986. From 1986 to 1989 he did research as a doctoral student at the ETH Zurich and then went to the Institute for Spectroscopy of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Troitsk near Moscow for half a year . He then worked for ten years as a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg . In 1994, Grimm completed his habilitation in experimental physics at Heidelberg University .

In 2000 he was appointed to a chair for experimental physics at the University of Innsbruck . From 2005 to 2008 he was dean of the Faculty of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics and has been head of the Research Center for Quantum Physics since 2006.

Since 2003 he has also been Scientific Director at the Institute for Quantum Optics and Quantum Information (IQOQI) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW).

Rudolf Grimm is married and has three children. Since December 17, 2007, he has both German citizenship and Austrian citizenship.

Act

The experimental physicist deals with Bose-Einstein condensates from atoms and molecules as well as fermionic quantum gases. In 2002, his group succeeded in producing the world's first Bose-Einstein condensate from cesium atoms . A year later, the team created a Bose-Einstein condensate from molecules for the first time. In 2004 the Innsbruck researchers realized a Fermi condensate . The science magazine Science ranked this success among the ten best papers from all scientific disciplines worldwide this year. While working on collective vibrational excitations and pairing energies, Grimm was able to find indications for the frictionless flow of particles ( superfluidity ) in Fermi condensates for the first time . In the meantime, the physicists working with Rudolf Grimm are also able to produce more complex molecules in ultra-cold quantum gases. 2006 saw the first experimental observation of Efimov states , which the Russian Vitali Efimov had theoretically predicted in the early 1970s. At present (2007) Grimm is working intensively on mixed condensates from atoms of different elements.

Awards

Rudolf Grimm has already received a number of prizes for his scientific achievements. In 2005 he received the highest Austrian scientific award , the Wittgenstein Prize . In the same year he was voted “Austrian of the Year 2005” in the field of research by the Austrian daily newspaper “Die Presse”. He had previously received the Gerhard Hess Prize from the German Research Foundation (1996) and the silver medal from the ETH Zurich (1989). He recently received the Beller Lectureship Award from the American Physical Society (APS), of which he became a Fellow in 2007. Rudolf Grimm has been a real member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 2006. In 2008 he received the Tyrolean State Prize for Science . In 2009 he was named Scientist of the Year in Austria . In 2018, he and Vitali Efimov were honored with the first-ever Faddeev Medal.

literature

credentials

  1. ↑ Bears and the Milk Boys
  2. ↑ derStandard.at - Physicist Rudolf Grimm is "Scientist of the Year 2009" , February 2, 2010.
  3. ↑ a b science.orf.at - Ex- "Milchbubi" is scientist of the year , February 2, 2010.
  4. ↑ Univ.-Prof. Dr. Rudolf Grimm. University of Innsbruck, accessed on November 14, 2018 .
  5. ^ T. Weber: Bose-Einstein Condensation of Cesium. In: Science. 299, pp. 232-235, doi: 10.1126 / science.1079699 .
  6. ↑ S. Jochim: Bose-Einstein Condensation of Molecules. In: Science. 302, 2003, pp. 2101-2103, doi: 10.1126 / science.1093280 .
  7. ^ Science: Breakthrough of the Year 2004
  8. ↑ T. Kraemer, M. Mark u. a .: Evidence for Efimov quantum states in an ultracold gas of cesium atoms. In: Nature. 440, 2006, pp. 315-318, doi: 10.1038 / nature04626 .
  9. ↑ derStandard.at: Innsbruck experimental physicist Rudolf Grimm awarded the Faddeev Medal . Article dated July 10, 2018, accessed July 11, 2018.

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personal data
SURNAME Grimm, Rudolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Austrian experimental physicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim