Peter Hänggi
Peter Hänggi | |
|---|---|
| Born | November 29, 1950 |
| Nationality | Swiss  |
| Alma mater | University of Basel, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
| Known for | Stochastic resonance Hänggi's law |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Physics Statistical physics Dissipative systems |
| Institutions | University of Augsburg |
Peter Hänggi (born November 29, 1950) is a theoretical physicist from Switzerland. He is best known for his original works on Brownian motion and the Brownian motor concept, stochastic resonance and dissipative systems (classical and quantum mechanical). Other topics include, driven quantum tunneling, such as the discovery of coherent destruction of tunneling (CDT), phononics, relativistic statistical mechanics and the foundations of classical and quantum thermodynamics.
Notable review papers
Hänggi's Law
The following statement is attributed as Hänggi's Law:
The more trivial your research, the more people will read it and agree.
It is labeled as a kind of Murphy's law and it was first seen in Arthur Bloch's work.[3] However, the attribute's relation to Professor Hänggi's research is not clear.
Corollaries:
- The more vital your research, the fewer people will understand it.
- You write a nontrivial paper and you likely will be the only one who will remember it.
References
- ^ Hänggi, Peter; Talkner, Peter; Borkovec, Michal (1990-04-01). "Reaction-rate theory: fifty years after Kramers". Reviews of Modern Physics. 62 (2): 251–341. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.62.251.
- ^ Gammaitoni, Luca; Hänggi, Peter; Jung, Peter; Marchesoni, Fabio (1998-01-01). "Stochastic resonance". Reviews of Modern Physics. 70 (1): 223–287. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.70.223.
- ^ Bloch, Arthur (2003). Murphy's Law. Penguin. ISBN 9780399529306.
