Achim Richter
Achim Richter ( born September 21, 1940 in Dresden ) is a German nuclear physicist. He was from 1974 professor at the Institute of Nuclear Physics at the Technical University of Darmstadt and was retired in September 30, 2008. From 1 November 2008, he is Director of the European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas ( ECT *) in Trento, Italy.
Biography
Richter was born as the son of the architect George Edmund judge and his wife Elsa, nee Wenzel. In Dresden he attended elementary and high school, where he took off his class in 1958 graduated from high school. After his application had been rejected five times to study physics at the Technical University Dresden for political- ideological reasons, he escaped in 1959 on West Berlin in the Federal Republic of Germany.
1959 began the study of physics at the University of Heidelberg and was inducted into the Academic Foundation of the German people in 1963. In 1965 he received the diploma in physics from the University of Heidelberg. In 1967 the PhD in Physics, with Professor Wolfgang Gentner, Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg. 1967-1968 he worked as a Research Associate at the Department of Physics Florida State University in Tallahassee in the State of Florida, and from 1969 to 1970 as a postdoctoral fellow at the Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory in Downers Grove Township, DuPage County in the U.S. state of Illinois.
1971 Richter was Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg. After his habilitation in physics from the University of Heidelberg where he became a lecturer. From 1971 to 1973 Richter worked as a research and professor at the Ruhr- University Bochum. In 1974 he moved to the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt as a director at the Institute for Nuclear Physics.
During his time as director of the IKP in Darmstadt Prof. Richter 100 own PhD holds a doctorate.
Richter is a member of the German Physical Society and the German University Association. End of 2005, the American Physical Society elected him as the first non-American to Senior Editor of the prestigious journal Physical Reviews of Modern Physics.
Achim Richter plays since childhood viola. He is married to Dr. Christine Monika.
Works
Judge and his staff arrive with the development of the superconducting Darmstadt electron accelerator S- DALINAC - the first such accelerator in Europe - and the construction of the first free-electron laser ( FEL) in Germany significant research achievements.
He is considered the discoverer of the shear mode ( scissors mode) in heavy deformed nuclei (1984). His scientific research areas cover a wide spectrum in the areas of nuclear physics, atomic physics, radiation physics, accelerator physics and nonlinear dynamics. Mention may be made in particular studies on symmetries and conservation laws in light nuclei and fluctuation phenomena in nuclear reactions, experiments on electromagnetic core excitations by photons, electrons and hadrons as well as work in the fields of channeling radiation, nonlinear dynamics and quantum chaos.