Gisela Anton
Gisela Anton ( born glassmaker, born 1955 ) is a German physicist.
Gisela Anton began in 1973 to study physics in Bonn and received his PhD in 1983. She was employed from 1984 to 1995 at the Physics Institute of the University of Bonn and was in 1990/91 for a research stay in Saclay and 1991/92 in Mainz. She qualified in 1993 in Bonn and received in 1995 a call to the chair of experimental physics at the University of Erlangen -Nuremberg.
Gisela Anton took in 1975 at the Federal Young Scientists competition part and was National Champion. There she met Frank Anton know, who is also a Federal victory achieved - the two married in 1979 and have three children.
Work
Gisela Anton dealt in Bonn with the high-energy physics and worked at the particle accelerator ELSA, for which she designed the detector Amadeus. For this performance, she is awarded the 1994 Leibniz Prize of the DFG and 1995 with the Federal Cross of Merit.
In Erlangen, she participates in the neutrino detector ANTARES and conducts applied physics in the medical field.
She is also founder of the ECAP (Erlangen Center for Astroparticle Physics ).
She is also active as Mitbetreuerin the Erlangen Student Research Centre.
Awards
- National Champion Youth Research, 1975
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize, German Research Foundation, 1994
- Federal Cross of Merit, 1995
- Prize for Excellence in Teaching by the Bavarian State Ministry of Sciences, Research and the Arts, 2000
- Bavarian Order of Merit, 2009
- Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art, 2010