Albert H. Walenta
Albert Heinrich Walenta ( born October 2, 1943 in Pomerania ) is a German physicist.
Life
Walenta studied physics from 1963 to 1969 in Berlin and Heidelberg, and was a research assistant at the Physics Institute of the University of Heidelberg until 1976. He received his PhD in 1972 on the location of particle by measuring the electron drift time in large-area proportional counters and his habilitation in 1975. He was from 1976 to 1981 as "Visiting and Full Scientist at the Brookhaven National Laboratory in Upton (New York) and in 1981 became professor of experimental physics at the University of Siegen appointed. Walenta was from 1997 to 2002 Rector of the University of Siegen. Walenta was from 1 January 2000 to 31 December 2003 Executive Board Member of the German Academic Exchange Service.
From 1 April 2001 to 31 March 2004, he led the project " Physics 2000 - New Media at the University Association for a research-based study of physics, taking into account modern application fields and inclusion of a self- complementary digital information system ", which by the BMBF, with a funding of about 2 8 million euros was appointed and took part in the six universities.
Walenta is plenary member of the Research Centre Jülich in the Helmholtz Association and since 1999 Chairman of the Panel on "Device equipment, innovation and development" of the International Committee for Future Accelerators ( German: International Committee for Future Accelerators ), a division of IUPAP ( 2005).
Services
He was honored in 1973 with the Physics Prize of the German Physical Society for the development of multi-wire drift chamber. During his time in the U.S., he worked on the development of imaging detectors for biomedical applications. In victories, he continued this work and also worked on projects at CERN and DESY. For this work he was awarded the 1986 Leibniz Prize for the development and use of electronic position-resolving detectors in biomedical and materials science applications.
Awards
- Gustav Hertz Prize, German Physical Society, 1973
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, German Research Foundation, 1986