Peter Armbruster
Peter Armbruster (born July 25
1931 in
Dachau, Bavaria) is a
physicist at the
Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) facility in Darmstadt,
Germany, and is credited with discovering elements 108
Hassium, 109
Meitnerium, 110 (
darmstadtium), 111 (
roentgenium), and 112 (
ununbium).
He studied physics at the Technical University of Stuttgart and Munich, and obtained his Ph.D. in 1961 under
Heinz Maier-Leibnitz,
Technical University of Munich. His major research fields are fission, interaction of heavy ions in matter and atomic physics with fission product beams at the Research Centre of
Jülich (1965 to 1970). He was Senior Scientist at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung Darmstadt, GSI, from 1971 to 1996. From 1989 to 1992 he was research Director of the European
Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), Grenoble. Since 1996 he has been involved in a project on incineration of
nuclear waste by spallation and fission reactions.
He was affiliated as professor to the
University of Cologne (1968) and the
Darmstadt University of Technology since 1984.
He has received many awards for his work, including the Max-Born Medal awarded by the Institute of Physics London and the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft in 1988, and the Stern-Gerlach Medal awarded by the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft in 1997. The
American Chemical Society honoured Peter Armbruster 1997 as one of few non-Americans with the 'Nuclear Chemistry Award'.
* Peter Armbruster:
Bau eines Massenseparators für Spaltprodukte und Nachweis einer Anregung innerer Elektronenschalen bei der Abbremsung von Spaltprodukten T.H. München, F. f. allg. Wiss., PhD thesis, 21. Jan. 1961
Jefferson Lab
