Theodor W. Hänsch

Physicist, Academic

1941 –

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Who is Theodor W. Hänsch?

Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch is a German physicist. He received one fourth of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for "contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique", sharing the prize with John L. Hall and Roy J. Glauber.

Hänsch is Director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik and Professor of experimental physics and laser spectroscopy at the Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

Hänsch gained his Diplom and doctoral degree from Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg in 1960s. Subsequently, he became a professor at Stanford University, California from 1975 to 1986. He was awarded the Comstock Prize in Physics from the National Academy of Sciences in 1983. In 1986, he received the Albert A. Michelson Medal from the Franklin Institute. In the same year Hänsch returned to Germany to head the Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik. In 1989, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which is the highest honour awarded in German research. In 2005, he also received the Otto Hahn Award of the City of Frankfurt am Main, the Society of German Chemists and the German Physical Society. In that same year, the Optical Society of America awarded him the Frederic Ives Medal and the status of honorary member in 2008.

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Born
Oct 30, 1941
Heidelberg
Also known as
  • Theodor W. Hansch
Nationality
  • Germany
Profession
Education
  • Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg
Employment
  • Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
  • Assistant Professor, Stanford University
    (1972 - 1975)
  • Stanford University
    (1975 - 1986)
  • Director, Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics
    (1986 - )
Lived in
  • Germany

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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