Peter Armbruster (born 25 July 1931) is a

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at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (GSI) facility in Darmstadt, Germany, and is credited with co-discovering elements 107 ( bohrium), 108 ( hassium), 109 ( meitnerium), 110 ( darmstadtium), 111 ( roentgenium), and 112 (

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) with research partner

Gottfried Münzenberg Gottfried Münzenberg (born 17 March 1940) is a German physicist. He studied physics at Justus-Liebig-Universität in Giessen and Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck and completed his studies with a Ph.D. at the University of Giessen ...

. Armbruster was born in

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, Bavaria. He studied physics at the Technical University of Stuttgart and Munich, and obtained his Ph.D. in 1961 under

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. His major research fields are fission, interaction of heavy ions in matter and atomic physics with fission product beams at the Research Centre of

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(1965 to 1970). He was Senior Scientist at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung Darmstadt, GSI, from 1971 to 1996. From 1989 to 1992 he was research Director of the European Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), Grenoble. Since 1996 he has been involved in a project on incineration of

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by spallation and fission reactions. He was affiliated as professor to the

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(1968) and the Darmstadt University of Technology since 1984. He has received many awards for his work, including the Max Born Medal and Prize awarded by the

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and the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft in 1988, and the Stern-Gerlach Medal awarded by the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft in 1997. The

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honoured Peter Armbruster 1997 as one of few non-Americans with the 'Nuclear Chemistry Award'.

References

* Peter Armbruster: ''Bau eines Massenseparators für Spaltprodukte und Nachweis einer Anregung innerer Elektronenschalen bei der Abbremsung von Spaltprodukten'' T.H. München, F. f. allg. Wiss., PhD thesis, 21. Jan. 1961

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1931 births Discoverers of chemical elements 20th-century German physicists Technical University of Munich alumni Living people People from Dachau {{Germany-physicist-stub Technische Universität Darmstadt faculty