Short CV |
| 1936 | Born in Unna/Westfalen, Germany |
| 1956-1962
| Study of physics at the LMU München, TU München and ETH Zürich
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| 1964
| Dissertation (Dr. rer. nat.) at the Forschungsreaktor FRM, TU München
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| 1965-1968
| NRC Fellow, then Research Associate at the AECL Nuclear Laboratories,
Canada. Research at accelerators
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| 1969-1973
| Assistent, Habilitation, Professor (H3), Sektion Physik, LMU München.
Research at the FRM and the joint LMU/TUM accelerator
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| 1973
| Professor (H4), Physikalisches Institut, Universität Heidelberg. Research
at the accelerators MPI Heidelberg and GSI Darmstadt.
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| 1983-2004
| Scientific Associate at CERN, Geneva, one year each in 1983, 1990, 2003.
Experiments R807/808 at the ISR (member), NA34 and NA45/CERES
(spokesperson) and NA60 (member), all at the SPS accelerator
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| 1992-1999
| Scientific Director of GSI, Darmstadt. Most visible impact tumor therapy
with C-ions, together with the Radiologische Klinik der Universität and
the DKFZ Heidelberg.
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| 2000 | Member of the Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften
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| 2004
| Professor Emeritus |
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| Research in
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atomic physics: quasi-molecules in low-energy heavy-ion collisions
nuclear physics: fission (shape-) isomers and heavy-ion induced fission
high-energy physics: quark matter, a specific stage of the early universe
neuroscience: early processing in the brain related to music perception
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CERN Experiment NA60