Prof. Dr. Horst Schmidt-Böcking

        

Institut für Kernphysik
Goethe-Universität
Max-von-Laue-Str.1 60438 Frankfurt am Main                            

Telefon: ++49 (69) 798-47002
E-Mail: schmidtb[at] atom.uni-frankfurt.de

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CURRICULUM VITAE          
Date of birth:  Feb. 13, 1939, Siegen/West Germany
Married since 1966, two daughters

University:University Würzburg: April 1960 - June 1963
Vordiplom in Physics: May 1963
Univ. Heidelberg:October 1963 - March 1966
Diplom in Physics: March 1966
Univ. Heidelberg: April 1966 - July 1969
Dissertation in Physics:  July 1969

Research activities:Nuclear and Atomic Physics
at Univ. Heidelberg: August 1969 - March 1974
at Univ. Frankfurt:  April 1974 - November 1980
Habilitation:October 1978
at Hahn-Meitner-Inst., Berlin:December 1980 -  August 1982
since August 1982 Professor at the University of Frankfurt/Main ( Heavy Ion Physics )
retired since 2004

Other activities                    
Since 2001 member of the city parliament of Kelkheim/FRG                    
Since 2009 managing director of Foundation for International Relations of the Goethe University                  

Honors:
1991 Max-Planck-Forschungspreis, gemeinsam mit Charles Lewis Cocke                   
1995 Eminent Scientist“ - Fellow at RIKEN / JAPAN(February to May 1995)                   
2008 Davisson-Germer award  of the American Physical society                   
2009 Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse                   
2010 Stern-Gerlach Medal of the German Phys. Society
2018 Ehrenpromotion der Universität Kassel

Ehrenmitglied des Physikalischen Vereins Frankfurt am Main

Visits at foreign institutions:  
Weizmann Institute Rehovot/Israel; 10 months Kansas State University, USA;30 months Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA;  8 months Brookhaven Natl. Lab., USA; 3 months RIKEN-Tokio, Japan; etc. 7 months University of Missouri Rolla, USA; 1 months Natl. Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu/Taiwan  2 months

- Adjunct Professor at Kansas State University, USA(since 1985) - Max - Planck - Research Award of the Humboldt Foundation 
1991 - Adjunct Professor at Lanzhou University, China  (since 1993) - Fellow of the American Physics Society
since 1996 - Fellow of the Institue of Physics/UK - member in numerous committees, editorial boards and panels - Distinguished Stefan Lyson Professorship
2001 - Chairman of the German Atomic Physics Society
2002-2005 - Chairman of the Forschungsbeirat Synchrotronstrahlung at HASYLAB 2001-04

Publications:
- more than 400 papers in Scientific Journals (more than 50 in Phys. Rev. Lett, Science, Nature.) - co-editor of 5 books - about 500 contributions to conferences - about 50 invited talks at International Conferences

Book:

Otto Stern: Horst Schmidt-Böcking und Karin Reich und Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt