Werner Ebeling (physicist)

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Werner Ebeling (born September 15, 1936 in Bad Suderode ) is a German theoretical physicist and professor emeritus at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

life and work

Werner Ebeling was born in Bad Suderode in the Harz region. His father Otto Ebeling was a poultry farmer as well as the founder and manager of a herd book breeding business, his mother Gisela Ebeling , nee. Brandt , was a tailor and manager in the family business. Werner Ebeling first attended in his birthplace of 1942-1950 the school and then high school ( GutsMuths-Gymnasium ) in Quedlinburg , where he received a solid science education and in 1954 the School acquired.

Werner Ebeling, Abitur at the Oberschule Quedlinburg (1954)

Ebeling studied physics at the University of Rostock from 1954 to 1959 . His academic teachers included Paul Kunze ( experimental physics ) and Hans Falkenhagen ( theoretical physics ), who also supervised his thesis on the topic: "Statistical theory of the molecular order - molecular distribution functions according to Bogoljubow." In 1959 he graduated as a physicist ; The examiners were Professors Hans Falkenhagen and Gerhard Becherer .

Werner Ebeling, workplace until 1979 at the University of Rostock, main building

From 1959 to 1969 he was a research assistant in physics at Rostock University. From 1960 to 1961 he completed postgraduate studies at the Lomonosov University in Moscow in the academic school of NN Bogolyubov with lecturer Yuri L. Klimontovich . This resulted in his first publication in 1962 together with Professor Klimontovich.

In 1963 he received his doctorate from the University of Rostock with a thesis on the kinetic theory of weakly ionized plasmas and electrolytic solutions . In 1968 he completed his habilitation with the thesis on the statistical theory of bonding states in plasmas and electrolytes. Ebeling is a student of Yuri Klimontovich and the Rostock theorist Hans Falkenhagen (member of the Leopoldina and the AdW of the GDR ). He also contributed to Falkenhagen's last monograph Theory of Electrolytes (1971).

Werner Ebeling, lecture as a young lecturer in Rostock (1969)

In 1969 Ebeling was appointed university lecturer in the physics section of the University of Rostock, and in 1970 he was appointed full professor for theoretical physics at the University of Rostock. In 1977 he was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR (AdW).

Werner Ebeling, honorary colloquium at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin on the occasion of his 80th birthday in 2016, with the academic students Frank Schweitzer , Rainer Feistel , Horst Malchow (from back to front)

In 1979 Ebeling was appointed full professor at the Humboldt University in Berlin (HUB) to the chair for statistical physics , which he held until he retired in 2001. From 1986 to 1990 he was Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences and a member of the Senate of the HUB. In 1989 he was elected as a full member of the AdW.

In the course of German reunification , he became the first freely elected President of the HUB Council in 1990 . In 1990 he also became chairman of the statutes commission at the HUB.

In 1991 and 1992 he worked as visiting professor at Hermann Haken's chair in Stuttgart, at Ilya Prigogine's chair at the University of Brussels and at Gert Eilenberger's chair at Forschungszentrum Jülich . From 1993 until his retirement in 2001 he was entrusted with the management of the chair “Statistical Physics and Nonlinear Dynamics” and took up a professorship for theoretical physics a. G. (as a guest) at the HUB. In the period from 1998 to 2000 Ebeling founded and headed the first large special research area of the German Research Foundation (DFG) “Complex Nonlinear Processes” (SFB 555) in which all Berlin and Potsdam universities and other institutes were involved.

Werner Ebeling has been with Barbara Ebeling , geb. Kürschner , married, who worked as a chief engineer . The couple has two children, Thomas Hüsing , b. Ebeling , library scientist and programmer and Dagmar Hildebrandt , geb. Ebeling , who holds a PhD in chemistry and works as a project manager at the Technical Monitoring Association (TÜV) . The Ebeling couple live in Berlin and near Rostock .

Research fields and research collaborations

The fields of research especially Werner Ebeling include:

  • Theoretical physics
  • Statistical Physics
  • Irreversible Thermodynamics
  • Theory of fluids and electrolytes
  • Quantum Statistics and Theory of Non-Ideal Plasmas
  • Stochastic processes
  • Chemical reaction theory
  • Entropy and predictability
  • Theory of self-organization and evolutionary processes.

His research collaborations and international research projects included, in particular, long-term projects with the universities of SGU Saratow , MGU Moscow, JU Kraków , ULB Brussels and UCM Madrid .

Visiting professorships

Ebeling was in international demand as a visiting professor at many universities. He was effective both in teaching with lectures and lectures and in research cooperation on current topics. Furthermore, joint publications with internationally known physicists have emerged from these visiting professorships . The length of stay was usually 3 to 6 months.

After taking age-related retirement in 2001, he held other longer visiting professorships in addition to the above-mentioned :

  • 2003 University of Saratow in the Johann Gottfried Herder program
  • 2004 and 2005 Lomonossow University Moscow in the Johann Gottfried Herder program
  • 2006 and 2007 Jagiellonian University in Kraków in the EU's Erasmus program
  • 2009 Jagiellonian University in Kraków again for 2 months.

Memberships and honors (selection)

Werner Ebeling, 2015 Golden doctoral certificate awarded by the rector and dean of the traditional University of Rostock (founded in 1419)

Editorial activity and editorial membership

  • 1982 to 2005 journal for physical chemistry
  • 1982 to 2000 Journal of Solution Chemistry
  • 1984 to 1995 series: Teubner texts on physics
  • 1989 to 2000 Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics
  • 1992 to 2008 Chaos, Solitons & Fractals
  • 1993 to 2004 BioSystems
  • 1999 to 2009 Contributions to Plasma Physics.

Publications

Ebeling has published more than 600 scientific articles on the theory of plasmas and electrolytes as well as on nonlinear dynamics and on the theory of self-organization , chaos and complexity . He has also published on the history of physics , on philosophical problems in physics and on the application of principles of self-organization to social processes.

His scientific work also includes numerous books and book chapters as an author and co-author (selection):

  • Hans Falkenhagen , with the assistance of Werner Ebeling: Theory of Electrolytes. Hirzel Verlag, Stuttgart 1971, ISBN 978-3-7776-0230-1 .
  • Werner Ebeling: Structure formation in irreversible processes: An introduction to the theory of dissipative structures . 1st edition. Teubner-Verlag, Leipzig 1976.
  • W. Ebeling, WD Kraeft, D. Kremp : Theory of bound states and ionization equilibrium in plasmas and solids . 1st edition. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1976.
  • Werner Ebeling, Rainer Feistel: Physics of self-organization and evolution . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1982.
  • Werner Ebeling, Yuri L. Klimontovich: Selforganization and Turbulence in Liquids . 1st edition. Teubner-Verlag, Leipzig 1984.
  • Robert Rompe ; Hans-Jürgen Treder ; Werner Ebeling: To the great Berlin physics. Teubner-Verlag, Leipzig 1987, ISBN 978-3-322-00487-1 .
  • Hans G. Bothe, Werner Ebeling, Alexander B. Kurzhanski, Manfred Peschel : Dynamical Systems and Environmental Models. (Mathematical environmental models treated for the first time in the GDR). Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-05-500334-9 .
  • Rainer Feistel, Werner Ebeling: Evolution of Complex Systems: Self-Organization, Entropy, and Development . Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht 1989, ISBN 90-277-2666-3 .
  • Werner Ebeling: Chaos, order and information: self-organization in nature and technology . Harri Deutsch, Thun, Frankfurt am Main 1989, ISBN 978-3-8171-1112-1 .
  • Werner Ebeling; Manfred Peschel (ed.): Dynamical networks. Conference paper, Eisenach 1988. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1989, ISBN 978-3-05-500666-1 .
  • Werner Ebeling, Rainer Feistel: Chaos and Cosmos. Principles of evolution . Spectrum, Akad. Verl., Heidelberg a. a. 1994, ISBN 3-86025-310-7 .
  • Werner Ebeling, Jan Freund, Frank Schweitzer: Complex structures: entropy and information . Teubner, Stuttgart, Leipzig 1998, ISBN 3-8154-3032-1 .
  • Werner Ebeling, Igor M. Sokolov: Statistical Thermodynamics and Stochastic Theory of Nonequilibrium Systems . World Scientific Publ. Co., Singapore 2005, ISBN 978-981-02-1382-4 .
  • Rainer Feistel, Werner Ebeling: Physics of Self-Organization and Evolution . Wiley-VCH-Verl., Weinheim 2011, ISBN 978-3-527-40963-1 .
  • Hermann Haken , Peter J. Plath, Werner Ebeling, Yuri M. Romanovsky: Contributions to the history of synergetics: general principles of self-organization in nature and society . 1st edition. Springer Spectrum, Wiesbaden 2016, ISBN 978-3-658-12951-4 .
  • Werner Ebeling: Physics, biology, technology and self-organization of information. In: Frank Fuchs-Kittowski ; Werner Kriesel (Ed.): Computer science and society. Festschrift for the 80th birthday of Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski . Frankfurt a. M., Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Vienna: Peter Lang Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, PL Academic Research 2016, ISBN 978-3-631-66719-4 (print), E- ISBN 978-3-653 -06277-9 (e-book).
  • Werner Ebeling, Vladimir E. Fortov, Vladimir Filinov: Quantum Statistics of Dense Gases and Nonideal Plasmas (=  Springer Series in Plasma Science and Technology ). 1st edition. Springer, 2017, ISBN 978-3-319-66636-5 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-319-66637-2 .

literature

Web links

Dataset on and literature on Werner Ebeling (physicist) in the state bibliography MV - No hit, June 7, 2011.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ GutsMuths-Gymnasium Quedlinburg http://www.gmg.julius-kuehn.de/
  2. ↑ Yuri L. Klimontovich, Werner Ebeling: Hydrodynamic description of the movement of charged particles in weakly ionized plasma (in Russian). Zhurnal Experimentalnoi i Teoreticheskoi Fiziki, Moskva 43 (1962) 146-152.
  3. ↑ Werner Ebeling: On the kinetic theory of weakly ionized plasmas and electrolytic solutions. Dissertation, University of Rostock, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, 1963. Reviewer: Falkenhagen, Kelbg , Klimontovich.
  4. ↑ Werner Ebeling: On the statistical theory of the bond states in plasmas and electrolytes. Habilitation, University of Rostock, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, 1968. Reviewer: Falkenhagen, Kelbg, Klimontovich.
  5. ↑ Neues Deutschland, October 9, 1978, p. 4.
  6. ↑ Bibliography Werner Ebeling. Compiled on the occasion of his 70th birthday ( PDF )
personal data
SURNAME Ebeling, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theoretical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 15, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Suderode