Richard M. Weiner

Richard M. Weiner ( born February 6, 1930 in Chernivtsi ) is a theoretical physicist.

Life

He survived the Jewish ghetto in Czernowitz. In 1958 he received his doctorate from the University of Bucharest. He wanted to leave Romania, but has been classified as a refusenik. In 1969 he managed to escape and he came to CERN. After another stop at the universities of Bonn, Indiana ( Bloomington ) and Imperial College ( London), he was appointed Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Marburg. He conducted research among other things in the United States at the Brookhaven National Laboratory, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory and since 1995 in Paris at the Laboratoire de Physique théorique, Orsay.

Weiner is the author of over 180 scientific publications. He said the isomer advance which applications have been found in many fields of physics, as well as the hot- spot effect in particle physics. He made important contributions to Bose -Einstein correlations and wrote also the first and only reference book. He also published a science fiction novel.

Works

• The mini nuclear project: A science and detective fiction. Publisher LiteraturWissenschaft.de, Marburg 2006, ISBN 3-936134-14-6 (reviews ).
• Analogies in Physics and Life: A Scientific Autobiography. World Scientific, Singapore 2008, ISBN 978-981-270-470-2 (PDF).