The Harvest of a Century Discoveries of Modern Physics in 100 Episodes

by Brandt, Siegmund

• ISBN13: 9780199673780
• ISBN10: 0199673780
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-07-24
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Siegmund Brandt, Department of Physics, University of Siegen, Germany

Siegmund Brandt is Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Siegen. Born in Berlin in 1936, he studied in Bonn under Wolfgang Paul. For his diploma (1959) he built a small bubble chamber, detecting particles produced by the Bonn synchrotron. The subject of his Ph.D thesis (1963) was the production of strange particles in a hydrogen bubble chamber at CERN in Geneva, where he worked from 1961 to 1965. In 1966 he became Privatdozent at the University of Heidelberg, continuing particle-physics research with bubble chambers at CERN and at DESY in Hamburg. In 1972 Brandt moved to the new university in Siegen as a member of the Foundation Senate. With his group he participated in experiments using large electronic detectors at electron-positron colliders at DESY, in which the gluon was found, and later in an experiment at the LEP collider at CERN, which concentrated on production and properties of the heavy bosons W and Z.