Werner Weber (physicist)

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Werner Weber (born August 16, 1945 in Bad Urach ; † July 3, 2014 in Dortmund ) was a German physicist and professor emeritus for theoretical physics at the Technical University of Dortmund .

Life

Weber was born in Bad Urach , Baden-Württemberg in 1945 . After studying and doing his doctorate at the Technical University of Munich , he worked as a scientist at the Bell Laboratories and the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart. The habilitation took place in 1983 at the University of Karlsruhe . After another stay at Bell Laboratories, he accepted an appointment at the Technical University of Dortmund . Among other things, he was temporarily dean and temporarily head of the synchrotron radiation source DELTA . He was also active in various committees, for example in the DFG or the DAAD. In 2010 Weber retired.

Weber's research area was theoretical solid state physics with a focus on superconductivity . Weber made numerous important contributions in this area.

In 1989 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society .

Book publication on climate change

In the book The Cold Sun. Why the climate catastrophe does not take place. by Fritz Vahrenholt and Sebastian Lüning , whose theses are largely rejected by climate scientists, he wrote a guest article. He had published on the subject even after his retirement, including in the journal Solar Physics .

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Footnotes

  1. ^ Mojib Latif - Science Convicts Man ( Memento from February 20, 2012 in the Internet Archive ). In: Financial Times Deutschland , February 18, 2012. Retrieved May 8, 2012.
  2. ↑ Vahrenholt is wrong: "It is still getting warmer" . In: ntv.de , February 12, 2012. Accessed May 8, 2012.
  3. ↑ Fritz Vahrenholt , Sebastian Lüning : The cold sun. Why the climate catastrophe does not take place. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 3-455-50250-4 .
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Urach
DATE OF DEATH 3rd July 2014
Place of death Dortmund