Volker Soergel
Volker Soergel (born March 9, 1931 in Breslau ) is a German physicist and university professor .
Life
Volker Soergel was born as the third of nine children of Wolfgang Soergel and Elsbeth Soergel. Rieth born.
In 1956 he was with a work on a nuclear physics topic at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg to Dr. rer. nat. PhD . After a one-year postdoc at Caltech, he was a Research Fellow at CERN from 1962 to 1968 before he was appointed professor of physics at the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg . From 1969 he was director of the Physics Institute there.
From 1974 to 1979 Soergel was chairman of the council of the German electron synchrotron DESY . From 1979–1981 he worked as research director at CERN . In 1981 he took over the chairmanship of the DESY board of directors. From 1981 to 1993 he coordinated the construction of the HERA electron-proton storage ring .
Until 2000 he was managing director of the Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner Heisenberg Institute) in Munich . He is an external scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg.
Soergel represented the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences in the "Working Group on Society Consulting / Future Issues" of the Academy Union .
He plays the violin and viola and likes to make music in his free time. B. together with his Geneva colleagues Wolfgang Kummer , Carlo Rubbia and Jack Steinberger .
His son Wolfgang Soergel is a mathematician.
Awards (selection)
- Gustav Hertz Prize of the German Physical Society (1963)
- Cross of Merit 1st Class of the Federal Republic of Germany (1993)
- Honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow (1994) for the design of the "HERA model"
- Honorary doctorate from the University of Hamburg (2010)
- Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
- Full member of the Academia Europaea (1992)
- Corresponding member of the Joachim Jungius Society of Sciences , Hamburg
- Foreign member of the Polish Academy of Learning in Krakow
Web links
- Literature by and about Volker Soergel in the catalog of the German National Library
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- ^ "Wolfgang Kummer 1935-2007" , Vienna University of Technology , July 26, 2007
- ^ Members of the PAU - Department III: Science and Technology. Polska Akademia Umiejętności, accessed June 13, 2017 (Polish).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Soergel, Volker |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |