Peter Hänggi
Peter Hänggi | |
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Born | Bärschwil, Switzerland | November 29, 1950
Citizenship | Switzerland |
Alma mater | University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign University of Augsburg |
Peter Hänggi (born November 29, 1950) is a
Career
He studied physics and was awarded B.Sc (1972), M.Sc (1974) and Ph.D. degrees (1977) at the University of Basel.[1]
He was a Postgraduate Research Associate at the
His main research interest is in theoretical statistical mechanics and quantum mechanics.
Hänggi's law
The following statement is attributed as Hänggi's law:[citation needed]
The more trivial your research, the more people will read it and agree.
It is labeled as a kind of Murphy's law and it was first seen in Arthur Bloch's work.[2] However, the attribute's relation to Professor Hänggi's research is not clear.
Corollaries:
- The more vital your research, the fewer people will understand it.
- You write a nontrivial paper and you likely will be the only one who will remember it.
Honors and awards
He was elected a
In 2003, he was elected to membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina,[1] 2005 elected membership in American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS),[citation needed] 2010 elected membership in the Academia Europaea (AE),[citation needed] 2014 elected membership in European Academy of Sciences (EURASC) and in 2015 elected foreign honorary membership in the Academia Română. He been honored with over 10 doctor honorary causa (Dr. h.c.) degrees.[1]
Peter Hänggi is a recipient of a number of scientific awards including[1]
- Lindhard Lecture (2010),
- Lars Onsager Lecture and Onsager Medal (2011),
- Distinguished scientist award and David Ben Gurion medal, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel (10.12.2014)
- Blaise Pascal Medal (2018),
- Smoluchowski Medal from Jagiellonian University (2006),
- 2019 Marian Smoluchowski and Emil Warburg Prize for Physics by the German Physical Society (DPG) and the Polish Physical Society (PTF), and
- 2023 Lars Onsager prize recipient of the American Physical Society (APS) for "For the development of Brownian motors and pioneering contributions to nonequilibrium statistical physics, relativistic and quantum thermodynamics."[1]
Notable review papers
- Reaction-rate theory: fifty years after Kramers[4]
- Stochastic resonance[5]
- Artificial Brownian motors: controlling transport on the nanoscale[6]
- Quantum fluctuation relations: Foundations and applications[7]
- Phononics: manipulating heat flow with electronic analogs and beyond[8]
- Driven quantum tunnelling[9]
- Statistical mechanics and thermodynamics at strong coupling: quantum and classical[10]
References
- ^ a b c d e f "2023 Lars Onsager Prize Recipient". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
- ISBN 9780399529306.
- ^ "APS Fellow Archive". APS. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
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