Heinrich Hora
Heinrich Hora ( born July 1, 1931 in soil Bach ) is a German - Australian physicist who is particularly concerned with laser - plasma interaction.
Hora went in Ústí nad Labem and Altenburg to high school and studied physics at the University of Halle -Wittenberg and the University of Jena, where he in 1959 received his doctorate in theoretical physics. After that he went into industry, working with Carl Zeiss, IBM, Westinghouse ( Pittsburgh ) and Siemens mainly in the field of solid state physics and optical detectors (including IBM patent in 1964 for diamond deposition from the gas phase). From 1962 he worked on plasma physics and laser - plasma interaction for fusion at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching. 1969 to 1975 he was also an Adjunct Associate Professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In 1975 he became professor of theoretical physics and head of the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of New South Wales. 1992, he became Professor Emeritus, but remained scientifically active and has been an Adjunct Professor at the University of Western Sydney.
He has been a visiting professor at the University of Rochester, in Bern, at the Weizmann Institute, Iowa, Giessen, Darmstadt, Osaka, at CERN ( Attaché 1990-1992 ) and from 1993 to 1996 in Regensburg (Konrad Zuse professor ). In 1981, he received a "Doctor of Science" at the University of New South Wales. He is vice president of the Royal Society of New South Wales. He is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Physics and the Institute of Physics.
Hora received the 2001 Dirac Medal, 1991, Edward Teller Award, 2002, the Ernst-Mach Honorary Medal and 1985 the knights - of - Gerstner Medal.
He has published over 500 works (2011), including several books, and holds 58 patents ( 12 in the U.S.).
In 2010 he published a proposal (supported by computer simulations ) for laser fusion without harmful neutron radiation by using solid borohydride. A high-energy laser pulse ( with properties that would be realized with just under development new generations of lasers with petawatt pulse power at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) generates a high-energy plasma block when it hits the borohydride allows the merger without the compression values for inertial fusion otherwise necessary ( Side block -on - ignition). According to his calculations the necessary input energy is ten times higher than the deuterium -tritium inertial confinement fusion.
He is known by the Black - Hora effect.
Hora founded in the 1970s, the conference series laser interaction and related plasma phenomena ( LIRPP ). In 1982 he founded the journal Laser and Particle Beams, whose editor he was until 1992.
He was married to Rosemarie Hora (d. 2007), and has six children.
Writings
- Laser Plasma and Nuclear Energy; Plenum Press 1975
- Nonlinear Plasma Dynamics, Springer Verlag 1979
- Physics of laser driven plasmas, Wiley 1981
- Plasma at high temperature and density. Applications and implications of laser- plasma interaction, Springer Verlag, Lecture Notes in Physics, Monographs, Volume 1, 1991, 2nd edition Regensburg, p Roderer 2000
- Nonlinear Force and Ponderomotion, ILE, Osaka 1996
- S. Eliezer, AK Ghatak An introduction to the equation of state, Cambridge University Press, 1986 ( Foreword Edward Teller )
- S. Eliezer, AK Ghatak Fundamentals of Equations of State, World Scientific 2002
- Laser Plasma Physics: Forces and the Nonlinearity Principle, SPIE Book, Bellingham 2000
- With George Miley (Editor), Edward Teller Lectures: Lasers and Inertial Fusion Energy, Imperial College Press / World Scientific 2005 ( in Hora: 30 years laser interaction and related plasma phenomena, New basic physics derived from laser- plasma interaction)
- Electrodynamics, p Roderer, Regensburg 1994
- No air disaster - it's worse, p Roderer, Regensburg 2007
- Climate problems - solutions, p Roderer, Regensburg 2010
- Innovation, Technology and Economics, p Roderer, Regensburg 1998, 2nd edition 2000