Reinhard Meinel
Reinhard Meinel ( born October 21, 1958 in Jena) is a German physicist.
He is the leader of the group Relativistic Astrophysics at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Jena. He is recognized as one of the leading experts internationally in the analytical treatment of the theory of gravitation. In addition, he is one of the first signatories of the call, which led to the founding of the New Forum.
Life
As a student Reinhard Meinel took in 1976 and 1977 participated in the International Physics Olympiads in Budapest and Hradec Králové and won a silver medal in 1976 and 1977 a gold medal. For the crew of the GDR at that time belonged Ralf Glaser and Stefan Schuster ( only 1977), which are now also at the University of Jena worked.
Reinhard Meinel studied physics at the University of Jena, graduated in 1981 and received his PhD ibid 1984 ( Supervisor: Gernot Neugebauer ). Since he was not in conformity with policies of the GDR leaders, it was initially a university career blocked. He worked from 1984 to 1986 at the Centre for Research and Technology of Microelectronics ( ZFTM ) in Dresden (now Center for Microelectronics Dresden AG) and the Central Institute for Nuclear Research Rossendorf (now Helmholtz -Zentrum Dresden -Rossendorf ). 1986-1991 he was a researcher at the Central Institute for Astrophysics in Potsdam (now Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam).
On 9-10. September 1989 he participated in the foundation of the civil rights movement in part Neues Forum in green heath near Berlin and was among the first signatories of the corresponding call. He was then very active in this citizen movement. So he has, inter alia, Thomas Wernicke published a book on the activities of state security in the district of Potsdam. In Jena, he has worked together with his former professor Gerhard Kluge the files of the State Security at the University of Jena.
After German reunification in 1991 he was able to return to the University of Jena and research there ever since on relativistic astrophysics. He was appointed associate professor in 1999.
Scientific work
Together with Gernot Neugebauer he published in 1995 a strict analytical solution of Einstein's field equations for a rigidly rotating disk of dust.
He also conducts research on nonlinear cosmic dynamos and other problems of the general theory of relativity as well as solitons. He is author of the monograph " Relativistic Figures of Equilibrium".
Meinel is also involved in the very doctrine, and got for his lecture Quantum Mechanics I on 6 June 2007, together with the seminar leaders Andreas Kleinwächter and David Petroff the Teaching Award of Physics and Astronomy faculty in Jena.