Hannspeter Winter (born in

Wels Wels (; Central Bavarian: ''Wös'') is a city in Upper Austria, on the Traun River near Linz. It is the county seat of Wels-Land, and with a population of approximately 60,000, the eighth largest city in Austria. Geography Wels is in the ...

on 22 August 1941; died in

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on 8 November 2006) was an Austrian plasma physicist who did research on

hollow atoms Hollow Atoms (discovered in 1990 by a French team of researchers around Jean-Pierre Briand) are short-lived multiply excited neutral atoms which carry a large part of their Z electrons (Z ... projectile nuclear charge) in high-n levels while inn ...

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professorship Professor (commonly abbreviated as Prof.) is an academic rank at universities and other post-secondary education and research institutions in most countries. Literally, ''professor'' derives from Latin as a "person who professes". Professors ...

at the TU Wien. He won the

Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class The Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (german: Österreichisches Ehrenzeichen für Wissenschaft und Kunst) is a state decoration of the Republic of Austria and forms part of the Austrian national honours system. History The "Austrian D ...

in 2001 and the prestigious German Alexander von Humboldt Research Prize in 2003. He was co-editor of

Europhysics Letters ''EPL'' is a peer-reviewed scientific journal published by EDP Sciences, IOP Publishing and the Italian Physical Society on behalf of the European Physical Society and 17 other European physical societies. Prior to 1 January 2007 it was known a ...

Heavy Ion Physics High-energy nuclear physics studies the behavior of nuclear matter in energy regimes typical of high-energy physics. The primary focus of this field is the study of heavy-ion collisions, as compared to lighter atoms in other particle accelerator ...

Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion ''Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering plasma physics. It is published by the Institute of Physics and the editor-in-chief is R.O. Dendy ( Euratom/UKAEA Fusion Association). The journal was ...

and has published approximately 270 peer-reviewed papers in international scientific journals. He was married to the Austrian judge

Renate Winter Justice Renate Winter (born March 8, 1944) is an Austrian judge to the Special Court for Sierra Leone, and an expert on family law, juvenile justice systems, women’s justice issues and child labour. She is a founding member of the Internationa ...

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Austrian physicists 1941 births 2006 deaths People from Wels Recipients of the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class {{Austria-scientist-stub