Prof. em. Dr. rer. nat. Dr. h.c. mult. Achim Richter
Contact
richter@ikp.tu-...
work +49 6151 16-23554
Work
S2|14 314
Schlossgartenstraße 9
64289
Darmstadt
Working Areas
- Nuclear Reactions with Light and Heavy Ions
- Symmetries and Invariance Principles
- Atomic Physics
- Nuclear Structure and electromagnetic Interaction in Nuclei
- Accelerator Physics
- Nuclear Astrophysics
- Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
| 1940 | Born in Dresden |
| 1959 | Begin of the study of Physics at the University of Heidelberg |
| 1963 | Admission to the “Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes” |
| 1965 | Final exam (“Diplom”) in Physics |
| 1966 | Scientific Assistant at the Max-Planck-Institute of Nuclear Physics at Heidelberg and work on the experimental doctoral thesis |
| 1967 | Doctorate degree (“Dr. rer. nat.”) in Physics |
| 1967-1968 | Research Associate at the Department of Physics at the Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, U.S.A. |
| 1968-1970 | Postdoctoral Fellow at the Physics Division of the Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, U.S.A. |
| 1971 |
Research Associate at the Max-Planck-Institute of Nuclear Physics at Heidelberg Habilitation in Physics at the University of Heidelberg and University Lecturer (“Privatdozent”) |
| 1971-1973 | Associate Professor (H3) at the Ruhr University of Bochum |
| Since 1974 |
Professor (H4/C4) of Physics at the Darmstadt Institute of Technology (now: Darmstadt University of Technology) and Director of the Institute of Nuclear Physics |
| 1978-1979 | Sabbatical leave at the Département de Physique Nucléaire à Haute Energie, Saclay, France |
| 1983-1984 | Sabbatical leave at the Département de Physique Nucléaire à Haute Energie, Saclay, France |
| 1988-1989 | Sabbatical leave at CERN, Geneva, as Scientific Associate |
| 1998-1999 | Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin (“Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin”) |
| 2003-2004 | Sabbatical leave at the Institut de Physique Nucléaire and the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques at Orsay, France, at TRIUMF in Vancouver, Canada, at the Physics Division of the Argonne National Laboratory at Argonne, U.S.A., and at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University, East Lansing, U.S.A. |
| 2005 | Foreign Member of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Göteborg, Sweden |
| 2006 | Tage Erlander Professorship of the Swedish Research Council |
| 2007 | Order of Merit of the State of Hessen |
| 2007-2008 | Sabbatical leave at the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory at Michigan State University, East Lansing, U.S.A., at the Institute of Nuclear Theory at the University of Washington, Seattle, U.S.A., at the Laboratory of Nuclear Structure of MIT Boston, U.S.A., at the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique et Modèles Statistiques at Orsay, France, and at the Max-Planck-Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden |
| 2008 |
October 01, Professor Emeritus at TUD November 01, Director of the European Centre for Theoretical Studies in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas (ECT*) in Trento, Italy, until October 31, 2012 |
| 2012 | November 01, return to the Institute of Nuclear Physics at TUD |
| 1964 | University Award of Physics for the Diploma Thesis |
| 1988 | German-French Alexander von Humboldt Award |
| 1990 | Foreign Associate of the Royal Society of South Africa |
| 1992 | Max Planck Research Price |
| 1995 | Honorary Doctorate of the Chalmers University of Technology at Gothenburg, Sweden |
| 1996 | Honorary Doctorate of the University of Gent, Belgium |
| 1996 | Corresponding Member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences |
| 2000 | Honorary Doctorate of the University of Witwatersrand at Johannesburg, South Africa |
| 2000 | Honorary Doctorate of the Kharkiv National University, Ukraine |
| 2001 | Stern-Gerlach Medal of the German Physical Society |
| 2002 | Fellow of the American Physical Society |
| 2005 | Foreign Member of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Göteborg, Sweden |
| 2006 | Tage Erlander Professorship of the Swedish Research Council |
| 2007 | Order of Merit of the State of Hessen |
| 2010 | Member of the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund, Sweden |
| 2010 | Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, Halle (Saale) |
| 2012 | Member of the Academia Europaea |
| 2017 | Johann-Heinrich-Merck-Ehrung der Stadt Darmstadt |