Horst Stöcker (born 1952) is a German

theoretical physicist Theoretical physics is a branch of physics that employs mathematical models and abstractions of physical objects and systems to rationalize, explain, and predict natural phenomena. This is in contrast to experimental physics, which uses experi ...

and Judah M. Eisenberg Professor Laureatus at the

Goethe University Frankfurt Goethe University Frankfurt () is a public research university located in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. It was founded in 1914 as a citizens' university, which means it was founded and funded by the wealthy and active liberal citizenry of Frankfurt ...

Biography

After ''Abitur'' 1971, Stöcker studied physics, chemistry, mathematics and philosophy at the Goethe University Frankfurt, where he got his Dr. phil.nat. in 1979 under

Walter Greiner Walter Greiner (29 October 1935 – 6 October 2016) was a German theoretical physicist and professor of the Goethe University Frankfurt. His research interests lay in atomic physics, heavy ion physics, nuclear physics, elementary particle physic ...

. Title of the dissertation was ''Shock waves in nuclear matter – proof by circumstantial evidence''. He went on to

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and – as a DAAD – postdoctoral fellow – to

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. Stöcker joined the faculty of physics and astronomy at

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and the National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory, NSCL, in 1982. In 1985 Stöcker moved on to a professorship for

Theoretical Physics Theoretical physics is a branch of physics that employs mathematical models and abstractions of physical objects and systems to rationalize, explain, and predict List of natural phenomena, natural phenomena. This is in contrast to experimental p ...

and

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at Goethe University Frankfurt, where Stöcker holds the Judah M. Eisenberg endowed chair since 2004. From 2000 to 2003, Stöcker was twice elected vice president at Goethe University, for science, mathematics, computer science, IT and high performance computing, HPC, for the medical school and for the , the hospital of the Goethe University. He was re-elected ViP for a third time 2006–2007. Stöcker is senior fellow, and, with Walter Greiner and Wolf Singer, founding director and chair of the executive board at the international interdisciplinary Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies (FIAS) – a public-private scientific foundation for theoretical research in fundamental science, natural science and computational life science, of Goethe University. Horst Stöcker was the scientific chairman and CEO (director general) at the Darmstadt GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research, 2007–2015.Organization overview
In 2008 Stöcker was elected vice-president of for the Research Area "Struktur der Materie", 2008, and was reelected 2010–2012.

Honors

* '' Professor Laureatus für Theoretische Physik'', at Goethe University Frankfurt * Doctor honoris causa of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RAS, Moscow, Russia * Doctor honoris causa of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia * Doktor honoris causa of the University of Bucharest, Romania * Fellow of the European Physical Society, EPS, London, Great Britain * Fellow of the Institute of Physics, IoP, London, Great Britain * Member, Deutsche Akademie der Technikwissenschaften, acatech, Munich * Member,

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, London, Great Britain * Hessian Order of Merit Stöcker published around 500 publications that were cited around 50,000 times, supervised around 50 doctoral students and submitted 5 patents.

Publications

* Walter Greiner, Ludwig Neise, Horst Stöcker: ''Thermodynamik und Statistische Mechanik''. Harri Deutsch, Thun und Frankfurt am Main 1993, * Horst Stöcker: ''Mathematische Formeln für die technische Ausbildung und Praxis'', Deutsch (Harri) 1995, * Horst Stöcker: ''Mathematik – Physik – Chemie, Das Basiswissen, 3 Bde.'', Deutsch (Harri) 2000, * Horst Stöcker: ''Taschenbuch mathematischer Formeln und moderner Verfahren'', Deutsch (Harri) 2003, * Horst Stöcker: ''Taschenbuch der Physik'', Deutsch (Harri) 2004,

References

External links

Internetpräsenz FIGSS

Internetpräsenz FIAS
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