Otto Rössler

Otto E. Rössler ( born May 20, 1940 in Berlin ) is a German biochemist.

Life and work

He grew up as the son of Semitic Studies professor Otto Rössler in Tübingen, where he took the ( classical language ) Abitur. After studying medicine at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen in 1966 he received his doctorate for Dr. med. 1967-68 he was a post-doctoral job at the Max Planck Institute for Behavioral Physiology in Seewiesen with Konrad Lorenz. In 1969 he was a guest lecturer at the Center for Theoretical Biology at New York State University at Buffalo, 1970 Lecturer and from 1977 professor at the Institute of Physical and Theoretical Chemistry in Tübingen. In 1981 he accepted a visiting professorship of mathematics at the University of Guelph in Canada and 1983 as a visiting professor at the Center for Nonlinear Studies, University of California at Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Rössler is a pioneer of chaos theory. According to him, the Rössler attractor is named. In addition, he also deals with the endo.

Since 1988 he is - with his wife - in a profound exploration of the University of Tübingen and the supervisory authority, the Ministry of Science of Baden- Württemberg, in particular on the scope and content of the respective academic teaching commitments; among other things, there was the possibility to convictions for trespassing and criminal damage.

Rössler has also become an opponent of the built at CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC ) announced its launch accident-induced, on November 2009, moved: he argues that the operation of the LHC artificial black holes could be produced, and one of these extremely small black holes do not - as assumed by Stephen Hawking - now decompose again to radiation, but could have exponential growth until it would eventually engulf the entire mass of the earth. Rössler based on his understanding of the known properties of black holes, in particular that of the event horizon. If this is exceeded by a particle, so escape is impossible. Rössler's thesis and its underlying understanding of the general relativity theory is rejected by a large majority of scientists.

A group led by Rössler turned to the European Court of Human Rights filed a complaint against the commissioning of the LHC. The urgent application related was dismissed in August 2008 by the court. The German Federal Constitutional Court refused to accept a constitutional complaint in February 2010 due to lack of fundamental importance and lack of prospects of success. Other actions failed.

Otto E. Rössler is married to the endocrinologist Reimara Rössler.

Works

• Existence of a " building block " principle in the design of complex reaction systems. Habil Tübingen 1972
• With Jürgen Parisi, Joachim Peinke and Ruedi Stoop: Encounter with Chaos. Self- Organized Hierarchical Complexity in Semiconductor Experiments. Springer, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-540-55647-8
• Endophysics. The world of the inner observer. Merve, Berlin 1992, ISBN 3-88396-085-3
• ( with Reimara Rössler ): Jonas's world. The thought of a child, 1994, ISBN 3-499-19710-3
• The flaming sword or hermetically is the interface of micro constructivism? Benteli, Bern 1996, ISBN 3-7165-1017-3
• With René Stettler: interventions. Vertical and horizontal border crossing. Stroemfeld, Basel and Frankfurt 1997, ISBN 3-87877-627-6
• Peter Weibel: Outside World - Indoor World - Overworld. A conversation. Stroemfeld, Basel / Frankfurt 1997, ISBN 3-87877-628-4
• With Wilfried Kriese: Courage to Lampsacus. The Internet as an opportunity. Wall Verlag, Rottenburg 1998
• By Artur P. Schmidt: medium of knowledge. The human right to information. Haupt, Bern 2000 ( PDF; 1.61 MB )
• Descartes ' dream. From the infinite power of the external standing. Audio CD. Supposé, Cologne 2002, ISBN 3-932513-28-2
• Stefan Bombaci (text for the exhibition catalog ). Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart 2004, ISBN 3-930693-23-2