Berthold-Georg Englert (born 1953) is Provost's Chair Professor at the
National University of Singapore
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, and Principal Investigator at the
Centre for Quantum Technologies. In 2006, he was recognized for outstanding contributions to theoretical research on
quantum coherence. B.-G. Englert's principal research interests concern applications in
quantum information science, but he is also known for his early work on
quantum optics together with
Marlan Scully at
Texas A&M University.
Englert was
American Physical Society
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Outstanding Referee in 2008, and is the Scientific Secretary of the
Julian Schwinger Foundation.
Graduate and post-graduate education
Englert obtained his Ph.D. in Physics from the
University of Tübingen in 1981. He did post-doctoral research at the
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
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and obtained his Dr. rer. nat. habil. in 1990.
Selected publications
Englert is the author of more than 160 publications in the fields of
atomic, molecular and optical physics.
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He published ''Symbolism of Atomic Measurements'' by Julian Schwinger (Springer Publishing, 2001, )
See also
* Englert–Greenberger duality relation
References
External links
Berthold-Georg Englert's homepage
at the National University of Singapore
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Living people
20th-century German physicists
Quantum physicists
Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni
German science writers
National University of Singapore faculty
Theoretical physicists
1953 births
German male non-fiction writers
21st-century German physicists