Walter Oelert (born 14 July 1942) is a professor at the
Juelich Research Center in Germany.
Research
In 1995 under the leadership of Professor Walter Oelert, the international group of physicists in the
CERN
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, known as CERN (; ; ), is an intergovernmental organization that operates the largest particle physics laboratory in the world. Established in 1954, it is based in a northwestern suburb of Gene ...
laboratory managed to show that they had obtained experimentally nine atoms of
antihydrogen
Antihydrogen () is the antimatter counterpart of hydrogen. Whereas the common hydrogen atom is composed of an electron and proton, the antihydrogen atom is made up of a positron and antiproton. Scientists hope that studying antihydrogen may shed l ...
in a
particle accelerator. Later research allowed the CERN scientists to collect anti-protons among low-energy positrons until they combine into anti-atoms and store them at very low temperatures.
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References
External links
Walter Oelert's Personal pageInterview with Oelert
(Cern Courier)
Scientific publications of Walter Oelert
on INSPIRE-HEP INSPIRE-HEP is an open access digital library for the field of high energy physics (HEP). It is the successor of the Stanford Physics Information Retrieval System (SPIRES) database, the main literature database for high energy physics since the 1970 ...
20th-century German physicists
People associated with CERN
1942 births
Living people
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