Prize winners 2012
The 2012 Lise Meitner Prize Winners are Professor Karlheinz Langanke, GSI and TU Darmstadt, and Professor Friedrich-Karl Thielemann, University of Basel.
The European Physical Society, through its Nuclear Physics Division, has awarded the Lise Meitner Prize 2012 jointly to Professor Karlheinz Langanke from GSI and TU Darmstadt, Germany and Professor Friedrich-Karl Thielemann from University of Basel, Switzerland. The prize is given every two years for outstanding work in the fields of experimental, theoretical or applied nuclear science.
The prize was awarded for "their seminal contributions to the description of nuclear processes in astrophysical environments that have changed our modern understanding of stellar evolution, supernovae explosions and nucleosynthesis."
Their work represents a bridge between the nuclear physics and astrophysics communities and has decisively contributed to shaping the research programme at current and future radioactive ion beam facilities.
The Prize was presented in a special session at the 25th International Nuclear Physics Divisional Conference of the European Physical Society (Bucharest, Romania, September 17-21, 2012).
Prize winners previous years
2010 Juha Äystö, Department of Physics, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
for "Accurate determination of fundamental nuclear properties by the invention of innovative methods of ion guidance and its applications to radioactive ion beams". Most of the work, and the development of the ion guide method in particular, have been performed at the cyclotron laboratories in Jyväskylä at both the old and the new Physics Departments.
2008 Reinhard Stock and Walter Greiner, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität and FIAS, Frankfurt
Reinhard Stock for his outstanding contributions to the development of the field of relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions by initiating research through the innovative use of high-energy accelerators (BEVALAC at LBL, SPS at CERN) which indicated the existence of a new form of matter.
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Walter Greiner for his outstanding contributions to the development of the field of relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions by pioneering the ideas of shock waves and collective flow in nuclear matter, thus inspiring experimental studies of nuclear matter at extreme conditions of density and temperature.
2006 Heinz-Jürgen Kluge and David Brink
Heinz-Jürgen Kluge, Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung, Darmstadt
for his key contributions to our knowledge of the masses, sizes, shapes and spins of nuclei through a number of decisive, sophisticated and brilliant experiments which combine atomic and nuclear physics techniques.
David Brink, Department of Physics, Oxford, United Kingdom
for his many contributions to the theory of nuclear structure and nuclear reactions over several decades, including his seminal work on the theory of nuclear masses using Skyrme effective interactions, nuclear giant resonances, clustering in nuclei and quantum and semi-classical theories of heavy-ion scattering and reactions.
2004 Bent Herskind, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Denmark and Peter Twin, Department of Physics, The University of Liverpool, United Kingdom
The Prize is awarded for their pioneering development of experimental tools, methods of analysis and experimental discoveries concerning rapidly spinning nuclei, in particular the discovery of superdeformed bands in wide regions of the periodic table.
2002 James Philip Elliot, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK and Francesco Iachello, Yale University, New Haven, USA
The Prize is awarded for their innovative applications of group
theoretical methods to the understanding of atomic nuclei.
2000 Peter Armbruster, GSI, Darmstadt, Gottfried Muenzenberg, GSI, Darmstadt and Yuri Ts. Oganessian, Flerov Laboratory, Dubna
The prize is awarded for their unique work over a long period on the synthesis of heavy elements, which has led to the discovery of the new elements in the region of nuclear charges of Z=102 to 105 (Dubnium), as well as Bohrium (Z=107), Hassium (Z=108) and Meitnerium (Z=109). These discoveries involved extensive developments of experimental techniques, and the use of a specific reaction mechanism, the "cold" fusion of two heavy nuclei. Measurements of the properties of these heavy elements provide an important cornerstone of the concept of deformed shells in nuclei, whose existence is responsible for the increased stability of the new nuclei. Because of this work the study of the properties of very heavy elements (Z=108-118) is a very active field in nuclear science.
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Prof. Karlheinz Langanke and
Prof. Friedrich-Karl Thielemann
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