Werner Hofmann (physicist)

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Werner Hofmann (born November 11, 1952 in Baden-Baden ) is a German physicist and university professor . From 1988 to 2019 he was director at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg .

Hofmann studied physics at the University of Karlsruhe with a doctorate in 1977. In 1980 he completed his habilitation at the University of Dortmund , received a Heisenberg scholarship in 1981 and, from 1984, an assistant professor at the University of California, Berkeley , where he became an associate professor in 1985 and a professor in 1987. In 1984 he became a research fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation ( Sloan Research Fellow ). From 1988 until his retirement in 2019 he was director at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg and since 1989 honorary professor at Heidelberg University .

He has been a member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences since 2010 .

He deals with astroparticle physics, especially gamma-ray astrophysics from detectors on the ground, physics of heavy quarks and neutrino physics. Hofmann is the lead scientist in the HESS experiment in Namibia.

In 2010, he and the HESS team received the Bruno Rossi Prize . In 2015 he was awarded the Marian Smoluchowski Emil Warburg Physics Prize from the Polish Physical Society and the German Physical Society (DPG) . For 2016 he was awarded the Stern-Gerlach Medal of the DPG.

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  1. ↑ Laureate of the Stern-Gerlach-Medal 2016: Prof. Dr. Werner Hofmann (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics Heidelberg) - Interview - University of Hamburg, March 2, 2016, doi : 10.5446 / 19338
  2. ↑ Laureate of the Stern-Gerlach-Medal 2016: Prof. Dr. Werner Hofmann (Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics Heidelberg) - Prize lecture - Title: "High-energy gamma astronomy with the HESS telescopes: the sky in a new light" University of Hamburg, March 2, 2016, doi : 10.5446 / 19339
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SURNAME Hofmann, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German astrophysicist and particle physicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 11, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Baden-Baden