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Place of Birth: Dachau, Bavaria, Germany
About Peter Armbruster
- Peter Armbruster (born 25 July 1931) is a physicist at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) facility in Darmstadt, Germany, and is credited with co-discovering elements 107 (bohrium), 108 (hassium), 109 (meitnerium), 110 (darmstadtium), 111 (roentgenium), and 112 (copernicium) with research partner Gottfried Münzenberg. Armbruster was born in Dachau, Bavaria.
- 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'.
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