Achim Richter#
| Membership Number: | 3579 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 2013 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2012 Returned Nov 01 to the Institute of Nuclear Physics at the TU Darmstadt
- 2008 Since Oct 01 Professor Emeritus
- 2008 - 2012 Director of the European Centre for Theoretical Sciences in Nuclear Physics and Related Areas (ECT*) in Trento, Italy
- 1998 - 1999 Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study Berlin, Germany
- 1983 - 1984 Sabbatical leave at the Dept. de Physique Nucléare, Saclay, France
- 1978 - 1979 Sabbatical leave at the Dept. de Physique Nucléare, Saclay, France
- 1974 - 2008 Professor of Physics at the TU Darmstadt and Director of the Institute of Nuclear Physics
- 1971 - 1974 Associate Professor at the Ruhr University of Bochum, Germany
- 1968 - 1970 Postdoc at the Physics Division of the ANL, Argonne, U.S.A.
- 1967 - 1968 Research Asscociate at the Physics Department of the Florida State University, Tallahassee, U.S.A.
Fields of Scholarship
- Nonlinear dynamics, quantum- and wave dynamical chaos
- Accelerator physics, superconducting cw electron accelerators and FELs
- Symmetries and invariance principles in nuclei
- Nuclear reactions with light and heavy ions
- Nuclear structure and electromagnetic interactions
- Nuclear astrophysics
- Hadronic physics problems studied with electrons, muons, pions and protons
- Weak interactions in nuclei
Honours and Awards
- 2010 Member of the Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina, Halle (Saale)
- 2010 Foreign Member of the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund, Sweden
- 2007 Order of Merit of the State of Hessen
- 2006 Tage Erlander Professorship of the Swedish Research Council
- 2005 Foreign Member of the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Göteborg, Sweden
- 2002 Fellow of the American Physical Society
- 2001 Stern-Gerlach Medal of the German Physical Society
- 2000 Honorary Doctorate of the Kharkiv National University, Ukraine
- 2000 Honorary Doctorate of the University of Witwatersrand at Johannesburg, South Africa
- 1996 Corresponding Member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
- 1996 Honorary Doctorate of the University of Gent, Belgium
- 1995 Honorary Doctorate of the Chalmers University of Technology in Göteborg, Sweden
- 1992 Max Planck Research Price
- 1990 Foreign Associate of the Royal Society of South Africa
- 1988 German-French Alexander von Humboldt Award
- 1964 University Award of Physics from the University of Heidelberg for the Diploma Thesis
