Hermann Haken

Hermann Haken ( born July 12, 1927 in Leipzig) is Emeritus Professor of the Chair of Theoretical Physics at the University of Stuttgart and the founder of synergetics.

After studying mathematics and physics in Halle ( Saale) and Erlangen and his doctorate in mathematics at the University of Erlangen and residencies in the UK and the U.S., he was born in 1960 to the chair of theoretical physics at the University of Stuttgart called ( retiring in 1995 ). He dealt with non-linear optics (especially Laser Physics ), solid state physics, statistical physics, group theory. Hooks built his institute within a short time into an international center of laser theory, after Theodore Maiman In May 1960, realized the first experimental laser. 1962 could hook introduce a closed theory of the laser, which gave the Institute an international reputation. The interpretation of the laser principle as self-assembly of non-equilibrium systems in the late 1960s led to the development of synergetics, as its founder hook is known today. He is the author of several books, including an introduction to Synergetics, and editor of a book series on this area. Later he turned to applications of synergetics to the study of brain function.

In 1982 Hook was elected a member of the Leopoldina, 1984, he was inducted into the Order Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts. In 1990 he was awarded the Max Planck Medal of the German Physical Society.

Writings

  • With P. Levi: Synergetic agents: From multi-robot system to Molecular Robotics, Wiley- VCH, 2012, ISBN 978-3-527-41166-5.
  • Brain Dynamics: synchronization and activity dynamics in pulse -coupled neural nets with delay and noise, Springer Verlag 2007 ( Springer Series in Synergetics )
  • Synergetic computers and cognition: a top down approach to neural nets, Springer, 1991, 2nd Edition 2004
  • Molecular Physics and Quantum Chemistry - Introduction to the theoretical and experimental bases, Springer 1992, 5th edition 2006
  • Hermann Haken, Hans Christoph Wolf: atomic and quantum physics. Springer -Verlag, 8th edition, 2003, ISBN 3,540,026,215th
  • Information and Self - Organization: a macroscopic approach to complex systems, Springer, 3rd edition, 2006 ( Springer Series in Synergetics )
  • With Günther Schiepek: Synergetics in Psychology: understand self-organization and design, Göttingen, Hogrefe 2006
  • Success secrets of nature: synergetics, the theory of the interaction, DVA 1981 Ullsteinhaus 1988 Rowohlt 1995
  • The self- structuring of matter: Synergetics in the inanimate world, Vieweg 1991
  • With Mary Hook Krell: creation of biological information and order, University Press 1995
  • Synergetics: Introduction and Advanced Topics, Springer 2004 ( first as an Advanced Synergetics: Instability Hierarchies of self organizing systems and devices, Springer, 1983)
  • Synergetics, an introduction: Non- equilibrium phase transitions and self-organization in physics, chemistry and biology, Springer, 1977
  • Publisher: Cooperative Phenomena, Springer 1973
  • Light and Matter, Vol.1: Elements of Quantum Optics, 1979, 2nd edition, Bibliographical Institute (BI ), Mannheim, 1989, Vol.2: Laser, BI 1981
  • Laser Theory, Springer, 1984 Reprinted from S.Flügge (Editor), Encyclopedia of Physics, Bd.25/2c, 1970,
  • Quantum field theory of the solid, Teubner 1973
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