Ruprecht Haensel
Ruprecht Haensel (born September 15, 1935 in Breslau , † October 19, 2009 in Kiel ) was a German professor , director at the Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics at the University of Kiel and founding director of the European Center for Synchrotron Radiation in Grenoble .
Life
Ruprecht Haensel was born in Breslau in 1935 and studied physics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and at the Free University of Berlin . Already in his doctorate (1966) he devoted himself to his main area of research, synchrotron radiation . In 1968 he received his habilitation . In 1974 he became professor and director of the then Institute for Experimental Physics at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel. From 1985 he was director of the Laue-Langevin Institutein Grenoble. In 1993 he returned to Kiel and was elected Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences in 1994 and Rector of the University in 1996. In 2000 he retired . In November 2011 the Ruprecht Haensel Laboratory was inaugurated in his honor, a joint facility of the University of Kiel and DESY located in Hamburg.
Publications
- Haensel, Ruprecht: The European Synchrotron Radiation Facility Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A, Volume 266, Issue 1-3, p. 68-73.
- Haensel, Ruprecht: Comparison of laboratory and synchrotron radiation EXAFS facilities , AIP Conf. Proc., December 1980, Volume 64, pp. 73-83.
- Haensel, Ruprecht: Synchrotron radiation in solid state physics , Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, Volume 15/1975, p. 203-228 ISBN 978-3-528-08021-1 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Ruprecht Haensel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Obituary on the ESRF website
- Obituary on the website of the University of Kiel
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Haensel, Ruprecht |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 15, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 19, 2009 |
| Place of death | Kiel |