Mannque Rho

Mannque Rho ( born December 14, 1936 in Hamyang, Empire of Japan, today South Korea) is a Korean theoretical nuclear physicist.

Biography

Rho studied politics at the Seoul National University and then wanted to first study medicine at Clark University, but later switched to chemistry with a bachelor's degree in 1960. Inspired by lectures by Ben Mottelson and Aage Bohr, he moved to nuclear physics and in 1965 at the University of California, Berkeley, PhD. As a post-doctoral researcher, he attended the French nuclear research center in Saclay (CEA Saclay ). There he met his future wife, a German, and spent the rest of his career in Saclay, where he became a professor. He was there in 1965 Senior Scientist ( Senior Expert du CEA) and retired in 2002 but remained a scientific advisor.

1966/67, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Virginia and 1969 /70 and 1975 visiting scientist at CERN. He was four times visiting professor at the State University of New York at Stony Brook ( SUNY ) at Gerald Brown (1973 /74 1978/79 1982 /83 1988/89), several times ( 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 / 03) visiting Professor at Korea Institute for Advanced Study and in 2001 at the Seoul National University. In 1972 he was a visiting professor in Tokyo and 1988 at Nagoya University. From 2009 he is also professor at Hanyang University in South Korea (where he was a visiting professor in 2004 ).

Rho dealt with subnuclear degrees of freedom and chiral symmetries and field theories in nuclear physics. He developed in 1979 with Gerald Brown the Chiral Bag Model of hadrons in which, as in bag- models common quarks are confined in a finite volume and can move about freely, but at the same time by coupling to a Pionenwolke on the surface of the chiral symmetry ( approximation ) is obtained. In 1991, he led a with Brown Brown -Rho scaling, which describe the disappearance of hadron masses in dense and hot environments ( neutron stars, early universe ). It was tested in heavy ion experiments at CERN ( Dileptonen production).

In 1985, he received the Paul Langevin Prize and the 1995 Gay - Lussac- Humboldt Prize. He was a professor at Humboldt Prize of the Society for Heavy Ion Research (GSI ) in Darmstadt (1995, 1997) and the Technical University of Munich ( 1996). In 1999 he received the Prize of the Korean Academy of Sciences and in 1997 the National Medal for Civil Merit of the President of the Republic of Korea. In 2002 he was awarded the Ho -Am Prize ( Samsung, Korea) and in 2003 he was made an honorary Doctor of Clark University.

He is a member of the Korean Academy of Science, the New York Academy of Sciences, and in 1972 and 1988 Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.

Since 1993 he has been editor of the International Journal of Modern Physics.

Personal

He is married and has a son.

Writings

  • Maciej A. Nowak, Ismail Zahed Chiral nuclear dynamics, World Scientific 1996
  • Chiral nuclear dynamics II: From quarks to nuclei to compact stars, World Scientific, 2nd edition 2008
  • The multifaceted skyrmion, World Scientific 2010
  • Publisher with Denys Wilkinson meson in nuclei, 3 volumes, North Holland 1979
  • Publisher Roger Balian, G. Ripka Nuclear physics with heavy ions and mesons, North Holland, 1978 ( Les Houches Lectures 1977)
  • Publisher with D.-P. Min: Chiral dynamics in hadrons and nuclei, Seoul National University Press 1995
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