Walter Oelert (14 July 1942 – 25 November 2024) was a professor at the Juelich Research Center in Germany.

Research

In 1995 under the leadership of Professor Walter Oelert, the international group of physicists in the

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laboratory managed to show that they had obtained experimentally nine atoms of

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in a

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. Later research allowed the CERN scientists to collect anti-protons among low-energy positrons until they combine into anti-atoms and store them at very low temperatures.

References

External links

Walter Oelert's Personal pageInterview with Oelert
(Cern Courier)
Scientific publications of Walter Oelert
on

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