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Prof. Dr. Dr.h.c. Ecker
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Born 1924; 1942 Abitur; 1943
military service; 1943-1946 studies at Göttingen, Munich and Bonn;
1946 Diplom; 1948 Dissertation; 1953 Habilitation; 1954 Scholar of the
Royal Society, Queens University Belfast; 1955 Visiting Professor at Oklahoma;
1957 apl. Professor University Bonn;
Visiting Professor at Berkeley, Rad Lab.; 1960 Diäten-Dozent University
Bonn; 1963 Founding Professor (chair) and senator at the Ruhr-Universität
Bochum and Director of the institute of the theoretical physics (RUB);
1964 Visiting fellow, JILA, Boulder, Colorado; 1986 chairman of the board
of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft
Plasmaphysik (APP); 1991 chairman of the board of the Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Plasmaphysik (DGPT); 1994 Honorary Doctorate
EMAU-Universität
Greifswald; 1997 Honorary President of the DGPT.
Scientific Activities
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Main fields of research: Plasma
Physics, Physics of Atoms, Statistics
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120 publications in relevant
reviewed journals
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Three monographs (Publishers:
Academic Press, USA; Wiley and Sons, USA; MIR-Nauka, Russia)
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Edition of several journals;
Editor of the Springer Series "Atoms and Plasmas"
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Scholar of the Royal Society
of London
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Fellow of the Joint Institute
for Laboratory Astrophysics (JILA)
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Visiting professor at several
american universities (e.g. University of California, Berkeley, University
of Colorado, Boulder)
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Consultant of the Institute
for Plasma Physics (IPP) of the Research Center Jülich (FZ) and
several large-scale research institutions and high-tech enterprises
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broad reviewing activities
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Chairman resp. member of the
scientific commitee of several periodic conferences and workshops
Administrative Activities in Science
and Research
- Representative of Germany
in the IUPAP-commission for plasma physics
- Dean and senator of
the RUB (multiply)
- Representative of the
RUB in the executive board of the FZ Jülich and elected member
of the scientific-technical council of the FZ Jülich
- Chairman of the Arbeitsgemeinschaft
Plasmaphysik, APP (Ruhr-Universität, Bochum; Universität
Düsseldorf; Universität Essen; Bergische Universität
Wuppertal; Forschungszentrum Jülich)
- Initiator and speaker
of the SFB 162 Plasmaphysik Bochum / Jülich
- Initiator and speaker
of the SFB 191 Niedertemperaturplasmen
- Director of the commitee
for the establishment and chairman of the assembly of members of the
Institut für Niedertemperatur-Plasmaphysik
(INP) Greifswald
- Chairman of the board
of the working group plasma technology of the BMFT
- Chairman of the executive
commitee of the Deutsche
Gesellschaft für Plasmatechnologie (DGPT)
- Chief Editor,
Springer Series on Atoms and Plasmas
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