Thomas Naumann (physicist)

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Thomas Naumann (born June 15, 1953 in Dresden ) is a German experimental physicist.

Prof. Dr. Thomas Naumann

Until 2020 he headed the particle physics group at the German Electron Synchrotron DESY in Zeuthen and is a member of the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider LHC of the European Center for Nuclear Research CERN in Geneva . Since 1996 he has also been teaching at the University of Leipzig , since 2006 as an honorary professor.

Career

Thomas Naumann was born in 1953 in Dresden as the son of the Jewish writer and doctor Friedrich Wolf and the dance teacher Irmgard Schaaf. His father died the year he was born. In 1959 the mother married the pianist and later professor at the University of Music Carl Maria von Weber Dresden, Karl-Heinz Naumann. Thomas Naumann only got to know his half-brothers Markus Wolf , head of the GDR's foreign intelligence service from 1952 to 1986, and Konrad Wolf , DEFA director ( I was nineteen ) and president of the GDR Academy of Arts from 1965 to 1982, personally .

After graduating from the special class for mathematics and natural sciences at the Technical University in Karl-Marx-Stadt , now again in Chemnitz , he studied from 1971 to 1975 at the Physics section of the Technical University of Dresden . He then began to work as a research assistant at the Institute for High Energy Physics in Zeuthen , today's second location of DESY . Naumann received his doctorate in 1980 from the Humboldt University in Berlin on high-energy reactions of elementary particles and has been a research assistant at DESY since 1992. At DESY's HERA electron-proton storage ring, he worked on the precision measurement of the structure of the proton as part of the H1 experiment from 1987 onwards . From 2007 he was involved in setting up the CERN and LHC communication in Germany and in public relations.

In addition to his scientific work, Thomas Naumann pursues wide-ranging philosophical, epistemological and literary interests. He is deputy chairman of the Friedrich Wolf Society, member of the advisory board of the Einstein Forum and lecturer at Urania Berlin. He gives lectures at international symposia on Einstein's dialogue with God, the multiverse , the anthropic principle and the fine-tuning of natural constants , the relationship between truth and beauty, but also on Bertolt Brecht's relationship to the Bible and the German hymns .

Thomas Naumann has three sons from three marriages.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biographical information , including from the archive of the German National Library , last accessed on May 23, 2020.
  2. ↑ Biographical information from: Elementary Particle Physics 2010 - 2014 , Helmholtz program application for elementary particle physics of the Helmholtz Association , 2009.
  3. ^ Publications by Thomas Naumann on the iNSPIRE HEP online database on high energy physics , last accessed on May 23, 2020.
  4. ↑ See the website of the Felix Bloch Institute at the University of Leipzig , last accessed on May 23, 2020.
  5. ↑ Biography of Irmgard Schaaf on: Sächsische Biographie - the personal history lexicon on the history of Saxony , last accessed on May 27, 2020.
  6. ↑ Forgive that I am a human being , documentation of the DEFA of Lew Hohmann from 1988, a portrait of the writer Friedrich Wolf , which is based on interviews of the closest family members and children.
  7. ↑ Die Weltmaschine , website of the German Science Association for Particle Physics, funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research , last accessed on May 27, 2020.
  8. ↑ Thomas Naumann: The old man doesn't roll the dice - Einstein's Dialogue with God. In: Universities in Central Europe - Crossroads of Scholars from All Over the World. University of Prague, Institute of the History of Charles University, September 30, 2011, accessed on May 25, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Thomas Naumann: The old man does not roll the dice - Einstein's dialogue with God. Science Nights Novartis, Basel, March 10, 2015, accessed on May 25, 2020 .
  10. ^ Ana Alonso-Serrano, Mariusz P. Da̧browski and Thomas Naumann: Special Issue "The Multiverse". In: MDPI. Guest Editors, January 20, 2020, accessed May 25, 2020 .
  11. ^ Thomas Naumann: Do we live in the Best of all Worlds? - The fine tuning of the constants of nature '. Varying Constants and Fundamental Cosmology, Szczecin University, September 17, 2016, accessed on May 25, 2020 .
  12. ↑ Thomas Naumann: Do We Live in the Best of All Possible Worlds? The Fine-Tuning of the Constants of Nature. In: Special Issue Varying Constants and Fundamental Cosmology. MDPI, August 1, 2017, accessed on May 25, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Thomas Naumann: 'Universe - Multiverse. Do we live in the Best of all Worlds? Ratio Science Forum Sofia, November 10, 2018, accessed on May 25, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Thomas Naumann: From Kepler to Einstein - Truth and Beauty in Physics. Einstein Forum Potsdam, March 23, 2019, accessed on May 25, 2020 .
  15. ↑ Thomas Naumann: Truth and Beauty. In: Research and Teaching. September 15, 2018, accessed May 25, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Thomas Naumann: Image and Reality. In: Research and Teaching. September 15, 2017, accessed May 25, 2020 .
  17. ↑ Thomas Naumann: Where you are going - Brecht and the Bible . In: Sebastian Kleinschmidt and Therese Hörnigk (eds.): Brecht's faith. Brecht Dialog 2002 . Research, No. 11 . Theater der Zeit, Berlin 2002, ISBN 978-3-934344-13-6 , p. 159–203 ( theaterderzeit.de ).
  18. ↑ Heroines of the Bible , lecture at Urania Berlin on March 8, 2018.
  19. ↑ Thomas Naumann: Where you are going - Brecht and the Bible . In: Dreigroschenheft . tape 2001 , no. 4 . Wißner-Verlag, Augsburg 2001, p. 31-40 .
  20. ^ How impressed Brecht by Villon . In: Lausitzer Rundschau of March 8, 2017, last accessed on May 23, 2020.
  21. ↑ Thomas Naumann: Grace does not save. German anthems. In: Berlin Reading Signs. October 2000, accessed May 25, 2025 .
personal data
SURNAME Naumann, Thomas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German experimental physicist and honorary professor
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden