- Hans Frauenfelder
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birth_date =June 28 ,1922
birth_place =Schaffhausen ,Switzerland
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residence = United States
citizenship = American
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ethnicity = Swiss-German
fields =Physicist
workplaces = nowrap|Los Alamos National Laboratory nowrap|University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
alma_mater =Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
doctoral_advisor =Paul Scherrer
academic_advisors =Gregor Wentzel Wolfgang Pauli
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known_for =Perturbed angular correlation
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footnotes =Hans Frauenfelder was born
June 28 ,1922 inSchaffhausen ,Switzerland . He is notable for his 1951 discovery ofperturbed angular correlation (PAC). Today,PAC spectroscopy is widely used in thestudy of condensed-matter physics.Education
He received his Dr. sc. nat. in physics in 1950 at the
Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich underPaul Scherrer . His thesiswas on the study of radioactive surfaces. At ETH he was also taught byGregor Wentzel andWolfgang Pauli . Through Pauli, he also got to know many of the leading scientists such asHendrik Kramers ,Werner Heisenberg ,Hans Jensen , andWolfgang Paul (Pauli's "real part").Career
Frauenfelder migrated to the US in 1952, joining the Department of Physics at the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as a research associate. He stayed at the UIUC till 1992, ultimately as Center for Advanced Study Professor of Physics, Chemistry, and Biophysics. His research interests includednuclear physics ,particle physics ,conservation laws , theMössbauer effect , andbiophysics . In 1992, Frauenfelder moved to theLos Alamos National Laboratory where he is currently the director of the Center for Nonlinear Studies and continues research in biophysics.Books by Frauenfelder
* Thomas G. Ebrey, Hans Frauenfelder, Barry Honig, and Koji Nakanishi "Biophysical Studies," University of Illinois Press (1988) ISBN 0252015282
* Hans Frauenfelder, "The Mössbauer Effect," W. A. Benjamin, Inc. (1962) ASIN B000Q7QEBG
* Hans Frauenfelder and Ernest M. Henley, "Subatomic Physics," Benjamin Cummings (1991) ISBN 0138594309
Honors
Frauenfelder is a member of the
National Academy of Sciences , theAmerican Philosophical Society , and a ForeignMember of theRoyal Swedish Academy of Sciences .ee also
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Wolfgang Pauli
*Paul Scherrer
* "Quantum Aspects of Life "External links
* [http://www.infography.com/content/411484962986.html References on Perturbed Angular Correlation (PAC)]
* [http://defects.physics.wsu.edu/pac_setup.html PAC Spectroscopy]
* [http://cnls.lanl.gov/External/people/Hans_Frauenfelder.php Frauenfelder's homepage]
* [http://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=102816 Frauenfelder's math genealogy]
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