Richard M. Weiner (6 February 1930 – 13 August 2020) was a professor of

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at the

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and an associate of the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique at

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Biography

Weiner was born 1930 in

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, former

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(presently

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). He was a survivor of the

ghetto. Weiner got his PhD in Physics at the

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in 1958, and from 1951 to 1968 he worked as a research scientist at the Physics Institute of the Romanian Academy of Sciences. Because of his intention to leave the Romanian communist regime, he was retrograded and denied an exit

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, being one of the first

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s of

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and

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. His 1969 flight from communist Romania and joining

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made headlines in the media.

Work

Richard Weiner predicted the

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which has found wide applications in many fields of physics. He also predicted the

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and has made contributions to the theory of

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being also the author of the only textbook on Bose–Einstein correlations. He was the initiator and co-organizer of the series of meetings LESIP. He also published a book titled ''Analogies in Physics and Life, A scientific Autobiography''.). He supervised Ph.D. theses by Norbert Stelte, Michael Plümer, Udo Ornik, Fernando Navara, Bernhard Schlei, and Nelly Arbex, and had as Postdoctoral collaborators among others Sibaji Raha, Apostolos Vourdas, Fred Pottag, and Leonid Razumov. Weiner had over 180 publications in scientific journals and books. He also published a science-fiction novel in German ''Das Miniatom-Projekt''.Frankfurter Rundschau, February 14, 2007. He was asked for interviews, among others by the

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and was invited by

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within the series ''

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Books authored

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Books edited

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References

External links

Homepage of Richard M. Weiner
* Richard M. Weiner, Introduction to Bose–Einstein Correlations and Subatomic Interferometry, John Wiley, 2000

* Richard M. Weiner, Das Miniatom-Projekt (in German) 200

* http://www.nzz.ch/magazin/buchrezensionen/chaotische_kettenreaktionen_1.577158.html * Analogies in Physics and Life, A Scientific Autobiography, World Scientific 2008
Scientific publications of Richard M. Weiner
on

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