Friedrich-Karl Thielemann

Friedrich- Karl " Friedel " Thielemann (* April 17, 1951 in Mülheim an der Ruhr ) is a German theoretical astrophysicist who lives in Switzerland.

Life

Thielemann studied at the Technical University of Darmstadt, where he received his diploma in 1976 and 1980 with Wolfgang Hillebrandt doctorate ( Garching ) and ER Hilf in nuclear astrophysics. As a post-doc he was with David Schramm and David Arnett from the University of Chicago, William A. Fowler at Caltech, Hans Klapdor at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics, Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching ( Hillebrandt ) and at the University of Illinois ( at JW Truran ). From 1986 he was an assistant professor and from 1991 as Associate Professor at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and the Harvard Observatory at Harvard University. In 1994 he became a professor at the University of Basel. In 1995 he was a visiting professor at the University of Turin and from 1997 to 2001 visiting scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

In addition to theoretical and computer-based Astrophysics ( Computational Astrophysics ) and nuclear astrophysics (including where important nuclear reactions and properties of unstable nuclei equation of state of quark and nuclear matter of high density ), he deals with the astrophysical for modeling plasmas important subatomic processes. He examined among other supernovae, X-ray and gamma-ray bursters, merger of neutron stars, formation of heavy elements and evolution of chemical elements in galaxies.

In 1979 he was awarded the Otto Hahn Medal. Since 1998 he is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. In 2008 he received the Hans A. Bethe - Prize for his many outstanding contributions to the understanding of nucleosynthesis, stellar evolution and stellar explosions. Since 2004 he is member of the Swiss Research Council. In 2012 he was awarded the Lise Meitner Prize.