Dieter Lüst (born 21 September 1956 in Chicago) is a German physicist, full professor for mathematical physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich since 2004 and a director of the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich. His research focusses on string theory. In 2000, he received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, which is the highest honour awarded in German research.
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| Born | September 21, 1956 |
| Alma mater | Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Technical University of Munich |
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| Fields | String theory, gauge theory, gravity |
| Institutions | CERN, Humboldt University of Berlin, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich |
| Thesis | Dynamische Massenerzeugung für Quarks und Leptonen (1985) |
| Doctoral advisor | Harald Fritzsch |
| Website | Homepage at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich |
Education
editDieter's parents, Reimar Lüst and Rhea Lüst, were also physicists. He studied physics from 1976 to 1982 at the Technical University of Munich before receiving a doctorate from the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in 1985 and habilitation was completed in 1990.
Career
editLüst performed his postgrad work at the California Institute of Technology and Max Planck Institute for Physics. He was a Fellow at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in Geneva between 1988 and 1990, and was there again with a Heisenberg fellowship in 1990/93.[1] In 1993, he took up a chair in quantum field theory at the Humboldt University of Berlin. He has been an external scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Golm.
He has been an editor of Fortschritte der Physik and a co-editor of Journal of High Energy Physics.
Awards
edit- 2000: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
- 2000: Member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
- 2005: Gay-Lussac-Humboldt-Prize
References
edit- ^ "Prof. Dr. Dieter Lüst - Curriculum Vitae". Max-Planck Gesellschaft. Retrieved 2019-07-12.
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