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Peter Hänggi

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Peter Hänggi
Born (1950-11-29) November 29, 1950 (age 73)
Bärschwil, Switzerland
CitizenshipSwitzerland
Alma materUniversity of Basel
Known forStochastic resonance
Brownian motor
Hänggi's law
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
Statistical physics
Dissipative systems
InstitutionsPolytechnic Institute of New York University
University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign
University of Augsburg

Peter Hänggi (born November 29, 1950) is a theoretical physicist from Switzerland, Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Augsburg. 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.

Career

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He studied physics and was awarded B.Sc (1972), M.Sc (1974) and Ph.D. degrees (1977) at the University of Basel.[1]

He was a Postgraduate Research Associate at the University of California, San Diego (1979–80), Assistant Professor of Physics, Polytechnic Institute of New York, New York (1980–1983), Associate Professor, Polytechnic Institute of New York, New York (1983–1987) and full professor at the University of Augsburg (1986 to present).[1]

Hänggi's law

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The following statement is attributed as Hänggi's law:[citation needed]

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.[2] 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.

Honors and awards

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He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1988 "for distinguished contributions to nonlinear statistical physics and reaction rate theory and for elucidating the influence of non-Markovian memory effects and dissipative tunneling in equilibrium and non equilibrium systems".[3]

In 2003, he was elected to membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina,[1] on October 14 2005 elected membership in American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS) for distinguished contributions to the field of reaction rate theory and stochastic resonance and for discovering coherent destruction of tunneling and Brownian motors, October 2007 elected membership in the Academia Europaea (AE), 2014 elected membership in European Academy of Sciences (EURASC) and in 2015 elected foreign honorary membership in the Academia Română. He has been honored with over 10 doctor honorary causa (Dr. h.c.) degrees.[1]

Peter Hänggi is a recipient of a number of scientific awards including[1]

Notable review papers

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References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f "2023 Lars Onsager Prize Recipient". www.aps.org. Retrieved 2023-02-20.
  2. ^ Bloch, Arthur (2003). Murphy's Law. Penguin. ISBN 9780399529306.
  3. ^ "APS Fellow Archive". APS. Retrieved 27 September 2020.
  4. ^ "Awarded Honorary Medals "De scientia et humanitate optime meritis" - Akademie věd České republiky". www.avcr.cz. Retrieved 2024-08-11.
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