Dr. Peter Armbruster
Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung
mbH, Darmstadt, Germany
Short Biography
Peter Armbruster, born July 25, 1931 in Dachau (Bavaria).
Studied physics at the Technical Universities of Stuttgart and
München 1952-1957. Ph.D. 1961 and habilitation 1964 under
H. Maier-Leibnitz, Technical University München. Research
in fission, interaction of heavy ions in matter and atomic
physics with fission product beams at the Research Center of
Jülich (1964-1970). Since 1971 Senior Scientist at the
Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung Darmstadt (GSI).
Various research fields in heavy ion physics. Starting with his
PhD work in 1959, the development of recoil separators equipped
with new detector systems have given the experimental base for most
of the scientific activities. Main activities in the synthesis
and production of new elements and isotopes, and in studies of
reaction mechanisms allowing to make the new nuclei. Studies in
the field of characteristic X-rays produced in ion-atom collisions,
among others X-ray emission from transient superheavy collision
systems and of the spectroscopy of the latter. Experiments on
track formation of heavy ions by neutron and X-ray small angle
scattering. 1989-1992 research Director of the European Institute
Laue-Langevin (ILL), Grenoble. Affiliated to the University of Cologne
(1968) and to the Technical University of Darmstadt since 1984.
About 250 research articles. Please see short list enclosed for
main publications.
Received the Max-Born Medal awarded by the Institute of Physics
London and the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft (1988), and
the Stern-Gerlach Medal awarded by the Deutsche Physikalische
Gesellschaft (1997). Bundesverdienstkreuz 1. Klasse (1986) and
Hessischer Verdienstorden (1995). Honorary doctoral degrees from
3 european universities.
Selected publications
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Award Symposium to be held at the San Francisco American
Chemical Society meeting
April 13-17, 1997 (See the meetings page for details)
| 2002 | 2001 William B. Walters | 2000 Richard L. "Dick" Hahn |
| 1999 Karl-Ludwig Kratz | 1998 Raymond K. Sheline | 1997 Peter Armbruster |
| 1996 William D. Ehmann | 1995 Joseph B. Natowitz | 1994 E. Kenneth Hulet |
| 1993 Richard M. Diamond | 1992 Robert N. Clayton | 1991 John M. Alexander |
| 1990 Michael J. Welch | 1989 Ronald D. Macfarlane | 1988 Guenter Herrman |
| 1987 Ellis P. Steinberg | 1986 Victor E. Viola | 1985 Gregory R. Choppin |
| 1984 Joseph Cerny | 1983 Darleane C. Hoffman | 1982 Leo Yaffe |
| 1981 Robert Vandenbosch | 1980 Arthur M. Poskanzer | 1979 Raymond G. Davis, Jr. |
| 1978 Paul K. Kuroda | 1977 Glen E. Gordon | 1976 John O. Rasmussen |
| 1975 John R. Huizenga | 1974 Lawrence E. Glendenin | 1973 Albert Ghiorso |
| 1972 Anthony Turkevich | 1971 Alfred P. Wolf | 1970 Paul R. Fields |
| 1969 George E. Boyd | 1968 Richard L. Wolfgang | 1967 Gerhart Friedlander |
| 1966 Arthur C. Wahl | 1965 Stanley G. Thompson | 1964 Isadore Perlman |
| 1963 Martin D. Kamen | 1962 Truman P. Kohman | 1961 Joseph H. Katz |
| 1960 Charles D. Coryell | 1959 John E. Willard | 1958 Jacob Bigeleisen |
| 1957 Melvin Calvin | 1956 Willard F. Libby | 1955 Henry Taube |