Friedrich-Karl Thielemann, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Friedrich-Karl Thielemann

German-Swiss theoretical physicist

Date of Birth: 17-Apr-1951

Place of Birth: Mülheim an der Ruhr, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Profession: physicist, astrophysicist, university teacher, nuclear physicist, theoretical physicist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aries


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About Friedrich-Karl Thielemann

  • Friedrich-Karl "Friedel“ Thielemann (born 17 April 1951 in Mülheim an der Ruhr) is a German-Swiss theoretical astrophysicist. Thielemann studied at the TH Darmstadt, where he in 1976 he acquired his Diplom.
  • In 1980 he earned his PhD under Wolfgang Hillebrandt (in Garching) and E.
  • R.
  • Hilf in nuclear astrophysics.
  • As a post-doc he was with David Schramm and William David Arnett at the University of Chicago, William A.
  • Fowler at Caltech, Hans Klapdor at the Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, am Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik in Garching (with Hillebrandt) and at the University of Illinois (with J.
  • W.
  • Truran).
  • Starting in 1986 he was Assistant Professor and from 1991 Associate Professor at the Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and at the Harvard Observatory of Harvard University.
  • In 1994 he became a professor at the University of Basel.
  • In 1995 he was a guest professor at the University of Turin and from 1997 to 2001 a guest scientist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Besides theoretical and computer-simulated astrophysics and nuclear astrophysics (including important nuclear reactions and properties of unstable stellar cores, equations of state of quark-matter and core matter of higher density), he worked on the modeling of astrophysical plasmas for important subatomic processes.
  • He investigated, among other things, supernovae, X-ray bursts, gamma ray bursts, fusion of neutron stars, emergence of heavy elements, and evolution of chemical elements in galaxies. In 1979 he received the Otto Hahn Medal.
  • Since 1998 he is a fellow of the American Physical Society.
  • In 2008 he received the Hans Bethe Prize "for his many outstanding theoretical contributions to the understanding of nucleosynthesis, stellar evolution and stellar explosions." Since 2004 he is a member of the Swiss Research Council.

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