Dieter Lüst (born 21 September 1956 in

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) is a German physicist, full professor for mathematical

physics Physics is the natural science that studies matter, its fundamental constituents, its motion and behavior through space and time, and the related entities of energy and force. "Physical science is that department of knowledge which rel ...

at the

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: link=no, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Originally established as the University of ...

since 2004 and a director of the

Max Planck Institute for Physics The Max Planck Institute for Physics (MPP) is a physics institute in Munich, Germany that specializes in high energy physics and astroparticle physics. It is part of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft and is also known as the Werner Heisenberg Institut ...

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the third-largest city in Germany, after Berlin and Ha ...

. His research focusses on string theory. In 2000, he received the

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize The Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (german: link=no, Förderpreis für deutsche Wissenschaftler im Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz-Programm der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft), in short Leibniz Prize, is awarded by the German Research Foundation to ...

of the

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, which is the highest honour awarded in German research. Lüst was a Fellow at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) in

Geneva Geneva ( ; french: Genève ) frp, Genèva ; german: link=no, Genf ; it, Ginevra ; rm, Genevra is the second-most populous city in Switzerland (after Zürich) and the most populous city of Romandy, the French-speaking part of Switzerland. Situ ...

between 1988 and 1990, and was there again with a Heisenberg fellowship in 1990/93.

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External links

Max-Planck-Institute for Physics (Werner-Heisenberg-Institute)Dieter Lüst's homepage at the LMU
Living people 21st-century German physicists Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich faculty Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners 1956 births People associated with CERN 20th-century German physicists {{Germany-physicist-stub