Biography:Ernst Wolfram Kittel
Ernst Wolfram Kittel | |
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| Born | June 12, 1940 Czech Republic |
| Education | Doctor of Philosophy, University Vienna, Austria, 1967. Lecturer, University Vienna, 1973. |
| Known for | studies of multi-particle production in collision experiments |
| Title | Dr, Prof. |
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| Fields | Physics, Particle Physics, Experimental Physics |
| Institutions | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| Website | Home page |
Ernst Wolfram Kittel (or Wolfram Kittel) (born June 12, 1940 in Jägerndorf (Krnov), Czech Republic) is Austrian-Dutch physicist who worked in the field of particle physics. His research covered the topics related to multi-particle phenomena,
such as soft-QCD dynamics, correlations, fluctuations, Bose-Einstein phenomena in collisions of high-energy beams of particles. He was one of the scientists who
recognized the importance of multi-particle production in collision experiments in early 1970x-1980x, and he developed this field since then.
Prof. Dr. Wolfram Kittel was a full professor of experimental physics (high energy) at the University of Nijmegen (now Radboud University Nijmegen), The Netherlands. Between 1990-2000 he was a chairman Dept. of Experimental High Energy Physics, Univ. of Nijmegen. Between 1994-2003 W.Kittel was a Founding Chairman and Scientific Director High Energy Physics Institute Nijmegen. Since 1978 he was a spokesman of the CERN experiment NA22 (Aachen- Berlin- Brussels- Krakow-Helsinki- Nijmegen- Rio de Janeiro- Serpukhov- Warsaw- Yerevan).
Wolfram is the author of several-hundred publications dedicated to multi-particle production in collider physics and several reviews (see several selected reviews here [1] [2] [3] [4]).
Walfram co-authored a book "Soft Multihadron Dynamics" [5] that gives an overview of the development of the soft (non-perturbative) phenomena uncounted in th production of multi-hadronic final states from collisions of various types of particles at high-energies.
Academic and professional career
- 1960 Beginning studies of physics and mathematics at the University of Vienna
- 1966 Physicist at the “Inst. für Hochenergiephysik der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften”, Vienna
- 1967 PhD (Dr. phil.) at the University of Vienna
- 1968 “Fellow” at CERN, Geneva
- 1969 Staff Member at CERN and contract at CERN
- 1973 Univ. Dozent (High Energy Physics) at the University of Vienna. Full professor at the University of Nijmegen
- 1978/1979 Guest year at the “Institut für Hochenergiephysik der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften”, Vienna
- 1978 Spokesman of the CERN experiment NA22 (Aachen- Berlin- Brussels- Krakow-Helsinki- Nijmegen- Rio de Janeiro- Serpukhov- Warsaw- Yerevan)
- 1980-2003 Member of the Curatorium of the “Institut für Hochenergiephysik der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften”, Vienna
- 1981-1983 Chairman of the Section of Physics of the University of Nijmegen
- 1987-1988/1989-1991 Chairman Research Committee of the Section of Physics of the Univ. of Nijmegen
- 1988 Member Evaluation Committee for Elementary Particle Physics of the Swedish Natural Science Research Council
- 1988/1989 Paid Associate at CERN (L3 experiment)
- 1990-2000 Chairman Dept. of Experimental High Energy Physics, Univ. of Nijmegen
- 1991-1993 Chairman Discipline of Physics, University of Nijmegen
- 1994-2003 Founding Chairman and Scientific Director High Energy Physics Institute Nijmegen (HEFIN, now extended to IMAPP)
- 2003 official Retirement
- 2005 publication of scientific book on "Soft Hadron Dynamics", together with Prof. E.A. De Wolf
- 2008 occasional lectures and publications
Personal life
W.Kittel is married Susanne Elisabeth Habôck (April 24, 1965). Children: Bernhard, Angelika.
References
- ↑ W. Kittel, "Review of Experimental Results on Few-Body Reactions at High Energy", Rapporteur's talk, Proc. Colloquium on Multiparticle Dynamics, Helsinki 1971, ed. E. Byckling et al., p 5.
- ↑ W. Kittel, "Progress in Multidimensional Analysis of High Energy Data", Invited Paper Proc. 4th Int. Winter Meeting on Fundamental Physics", La Baqueira 1976, Spain, ed. A. Ferrando, p 233.
- ↑ W. Kittel, "Brief Review on Jet Universality", Proc. XXIth Recontre de Moriond, Les Arcs 1986, ed. J. Tran Thanh Van (Editions Frontieres, Gif sur Yvette) p 205.
- ↑ W. Kittel and R. Peschanski, "Review on Intermittency in Particle Multiproduction", Proc. Int. Europhys. Conf. on High Energy Physics, Madrid 1989, Nucl. Phys. B (Proc. Suppl.) 16 (1990) 445-450.
- ↑ W . Kittel and E. A. De Wolf, Soft Multihadron Dynamics, World Scientic (2005) 652 p. ISBN 981-256-295-8
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