Till Kirsten
Till Arnulf Kirsten (born April 2, 1937 in Leipzig ) is a German experimental physicist.
Kirsten studied physics at the University of Göttingen and the University of Heidelberg , where he received his doctorate in 1964 under Wolfgang Gentner . From 1966 to 1968 he was at Brookhaven National Laboratory . Afterwards he was professor at the University of Heidelberg, where he dealt in particular with isotope and age determination of extraterrestrial samples, for example of meteorite and moon samples (he was involved as "Principal Investigator" in the NASA Apollo program).
Kirsten works at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg . He was project manager at the GALLEX experiment for the detection of solar neutrinos in particular in the Gran Sasso . For the first time they demonstrated the "pp neutrinos" generated when hydrogen nuclei (protons) fuse in the sun.
For his discovery of the double beta decay in the 1960s at the Brookhaven National Laboratory (indirectly from the investigation of selenium and tellurium ores) he received the Röntgen Prize.
Prizes and awards
- Röntgen Prize (1968)
- Gentner Kastler Prize (1993)
- Premio Enrico Fermi (2017)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Kirsten "Gallex measures solar neutrinos", Physics in our time, 2006, issue 6
- ↑ Kirsten, Schaeffer, Norton, Stoenner Experimental Evidence for the Double-Beta Decay of Tellurium 130 , Physical Review Letters, Vol. 30, 1968, p. 1300, Kirsten, H. Müller Observation of Se 82 double-beta decay in selenium ores , Earth Planet. Science Letters, Vol. 6, 1969, pp. 271-274. Proof was only provided directly in 1987 by SR Elliott
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kirsten, Till |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kirsten, Till Arnulf (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German experimental physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |