Hermann Haken

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Hermann Haken
University of Erlangen
Known forSynergetics
Haken–Kelso–Bunz model
AwardsHonda Prize (1992)
Max Planck Medal (1990)
Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts (1984)
Albert Michelson Medal (1981)
Max Born Medal and Prize (1976)
Scientific career
InstitutionsUniversity of Stuttgart
Thesis Zum Identitätsproblem bei Gruppen
Doctoral advisorWilhelm Specht
Doctoral studentsAneta Stefanovska

Hermann Haken (born 12 July 1927) is

professor emeritus in theoretical physics at the University of Stuttgart. He is known as the founder of synergetics and one of the "fathers" of quantum-mechanical laser theory. He is a cousin of the mathematician Wolfgang Haken, who proved the Four color theorem. He is a nephew of Werner Haken, a doctoral student of Max Planck
.

Biography

After his studies in mathematics and physics in

statistical physics and group theory
).

Haken developed his institute in a relatively short time to be an international centre for laser theory, starting in 1960 when Theodore Maiman built the first experimental laser. The interpretation of the laser principles as self-organization of non equilibrium systems paved the way at the end of the 1960s to the development of synergetics, of which Haken is recognized as the founder. Haken is the author of some 23 textbooks and monographs that cover an impressive number of topics from laser physics,

Grey system theory.[5]

For his wide range of contributions, he received many international prizes or medals, including the

Danube University Krems
, in 2005.

References

  1. ^ His thesis was supervised by Wilhelm Specht and titled Zum Identitätsproblem bei Gruppen.
  2. ^ H. Haken, Light: Waves, Photons, and Atoms (North Holland, Amsterdam, 1981).
  3. ^ H. Haken, Erfolgsgeheimnis der Natur (Ullstein, 1984).
  4. ^ H. Haken, The Science of Structure: Synergetics, (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1981)
  5. ISSN 2043-9377
    .
  6. ^ "Franklin Laureate Database – Albert A. Michelson Medal Laureates". Franklin Institute. Archived from the original on 6 April 2012. Retrieved 16 June 2011.

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