Herwig Schopper#
| Membership Number: | 1225 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES |
| Elected: | 1992 |
| Main Country of Residence: | SWITZERLAND |
Present and Previous Positions
- Professor emeritus, Univeristy Hamburg
- 1989 Full professor University Hamburg from 1973 until retirement
- 1981 - 1988 Director-General CERN,
- 1961 - 1973) Full Professor at the University Karlsruhe and Director Institute for Experimental Nuclear Physics of the Research Centre and the University
- 1970 - 1973 Division Leader and Director Experimental Research Programme, European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), Geneva
- 1960 - 1961 Cornell University, Ithaca with R.R.Wilson
- 1956 - 1957 Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge with O.R.Frisch
- 1950 - 1951 Research assistant at Technical University, Stockholm with Lise Meitner
- 1957 Privatdozent Erlangen
- 1951 Physics Diploma Hamburg University (1949), Doctorate Hamburg University
Fields of Scholarship
- Optics (thin metal layers)
- Nuclear physics (parity violation, proton polarized beams)
- Elementary particle physics (electron and neutron scattering)
- Accelerator engineering (superconducting cavities)
- Detector development (hadron calorimeter)
Honours and Awards
- 1957 Physics Prize, Göttingen Academy of Science
- 1958 Carus Medal, Academy “Leopoldina", Halle
- 1978 von Gerstner Medal, Munich (1978)
- 1984 Grosser Kulturpreis, Sudetendeutsche Akademie, Munich
- 1985 “Golden Plate" award, American Academy of Achievement
- 1985 Gold Medal, Weizmann Institute, Israel
- 1989 Grosses Bundesverdienstkreuz, Germany
- 1991 Wilhelm-Exner Medal, Vienna
- 1994 Purkyne Memorial Medal, Czech Academy of Sciences
- 1996 Order of Friendship, Russia, awarded by President of Russian Republic
- 1998 Memorial Medal, Charles University, Prague
- 2003 Grand Cordon of the Order of Independence awarded by H.M.Abdullah II, King of Jordan
- 2003 Tate Medal of American Institute of Physics
- 2004 UNESCO Albert Einstein Gold Medal
- 2004 UNESCO Albert Einstein Gold Medal
- 2004 Silver Medal of SESAME International Council
- 2005 Niels Bohr Gold Medal of UNESCO-Denmark
- 2009 Honorary Medal of Portuguese Minister for Higher Education and research
