Povh, Bogdan

Bogdan Povh (Belgrade, August 20, 1932) physicist em. Professor of Physics, Max-Planck-Institute of Nuclear Physics and University of Heidelberg, Germany.
He was born in Belgrade as son of Dr. Vjekoslav Povh and his wife Olga, both emigrants from Triest. In December 1936 the family moved to Ljubljana. After the high school graduation (Klasična gimnazija v Ljubljani) in 1950 he started physics studies at the University of Ljubljana. After obtaining his diploma in 1955 he spent one year in the compulsory service of the Yugoslav Army. Afterwards, from fall of 1956, he was assistant at J. Stefan Institute in Ljubljana. In 1957 married to Ana Križanič, Dipl. Ing. in Chemistry.
From Oct. 1957 to Dec. 1959 was working as a research fellow at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, USA. He was working in the group of William Fowler, later Nobel Prize laureate, on production of elements in nuclear reactions in stars.
After half a year research fellow at the University of Freiburg in Germany (Measurement of the Delbruck scattering) he returned to Ljubljana where he was assistant at the J. Stefan Institute up to September 1962. In Dec. 1961he received his Ph.D. at the University of Ljubljana.
In Oct. 1962 he immigrated to Germany and started to work at the University of Freiburg. In 1964 habilitation for the development of a new method of measuring the angular momenta in nuclei.
In June 1965 he joined the physics faculty of the University of Heidelberg, first as associate professor and from Dec. 1966 as full professor. In 1968 he established a permanent experimental group in CERN/Geneva, Switzerland. In the following 25 years the group was working on spectroscopy of hypernuclei, low energy antiproton physics and deep inelastic scattering of muons off the nucleon. Part of the research program was done at the High Energy Laboratories KEK, Japan and Fermi Lab, USA.
In 1969/70 sabbatical year in CERN, fall term 1972/73 sabbatical at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, USA, and 1973/74 dean of the faculty of Physics and Astronomy, Heidelberg.
In 1975 became a director at the Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg, remaining by the University as \personlicher Ordinarius"and continuing lecturing. In the same year a corresponding member of the Slovenian Academy of Science and Arts.
Further sabbaticals CERN (1983/84), Los Alamos Nat. Laboratory, USA and visiting professor at the University of California at Berkeley, USA.
From 1978 editor and from 1989 to 1997 editor-in-chief of the of the Zeitschrift für Physik A, and up to 1999 editor-in-chief of the successor journal The European Physical Journal A.
Since 1972 up to his retirement he was member of several scientific and advisory committees at DESY, CERN, GSI, Berkeley Lawrence Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory and to the German Ministry of science.
Since September 2000 professor emeritus at Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics and the University of Heidelberg.
In 2005 he was awarded the Stern-Gerlach-Medal for his pioniering work on the spectroscopy of Hypernuclei.
The total number of publications about 450, in the last 20 years 380 with 14345 citations, however more than 80% within large collaborations. Below quoted publications have been done predominantly with his Ph.D. students.
Deorientation Measurement in 20Ne, Annals of Physics (1971) Vol.63 577
Observation of Gamma-Rays from the Excited States of Hypernuclei, Physics Letters (1971) 36B 412
Excited States of Light Hypernuclei, Nuclear Physics B60 (1973) 1-25
The Proton Microprobe: A Powerful Tool for Nondestructive Trace Element Analysis, SCIENCE (1978) Vol. 199, 765-768
Gottfried Sum from the Ratio Fn2 =Fp2 , Physical Review Letters (1991) Vol. 66 2712
Diffractive Elastic Scattering and Hadronic Radii: Geometric and Pomeron Approaches, Physical Review D (1992) Vol. 46 990
Three text books, all by Springer, Germany:
Particles and Nuclei, first edition 1993, English, German, Italian, Japanese (Coauthors Rith, Scholz, Zetsche)
Scattering and Structure (1999), English and German (Coauthor Rosina)
Anschauliche Physik (2011) German

(November 2011)

Bogdan Povh (Beograd, August 20, 1932) fizik em. profesor fizike, Max-Planck-Institute für Kernphysik in Univerza v Heidelbergu, Nemčija.
Rojen je bil v Beogradu, oče dr. Vjekoslav Povh in mati Olga, oba izseljenca iz Trsta. V decembru 1936 se je družina preselila v Ljubljano. Po maturi na Klasični gimnaziji v Ljubljani je 1950 začel študirati fiziko na Univerzi v Ljubljani. Po diplomi 1955 je služil leto dni obvezni vojaški rok v jugoslovanski vojski. Po vrnitvi iz vojske je bil asistent na Institutu J. Stefan.
L. 1957 se je poročil z Ano Križanič, dipl. ing. kemije.
Od oktobra 1957 do konca 1959 je bil asistent na Univerzi California Institute of Technology (Caltech), prvo leto kot štipendijat Instituta J. Stefan, nato nastavljen od Caltech-a. Delal je v grupi Williama Fowlerja, poznejšega Nobelovega nagrajenca. Nagrado je dobil za razlago produkcije elementov v zvezdah.
Prvih šest mesecev 1960 je delal na Univerzi v Freiburgu v Nemčiji na meritvi Delbrüuckovega sipanja. Po vrnitvi v Ljubljano je po treh mesecih začel delati na Institutu J. Stefan kot asistent. V decembru 1961 je promoviral na Univerzi v Ljubljani s temo: Jedrske reakcije v soncu. Oktobra 1962 je z ženo emigriral v Nemčijo in začel delati na Univerzi v Freiburgu. L. 1964 se je habilitiral z delom o uporabi nove metode merjenja vrtilne količine jedrskih stanj.
Junija 1965 je dobil profesuro na fakulteti za fiziko Univerze v Heidelbergu, prvo kot izredni in od decembra 1966 kot redni profesor. L. 1968 je ustanovil eksperimentalno skupino pri mednarodnem laboratoriju CERN v Ženevi.
Naslednjih 25 let je s skupino delal na spektroskopiji hiperjeder, antiprotonski fiziki in sipanju mijonov na nukleonu. Ves ta čas je redno predaval v Heidelbergu. Del eksperimentalnega programa je bil narejen v laboratorijih na Japonskem, High Energy Laboratories KEK in v ZDA, Fermi Laboratory.
V zimskem semestru 1969 in letnem 1970 je bil na sobotnem letu v CERNu, zimski semester 1972 v Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, ZDA. 1973/74 je bil dekan fakultete za fiziko in astronomijo Univerze v Heidelbergu.
L. 1975 je postal direktor na Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik, na Univerzi je ostal kot \Persönlicher Ordinarius" in je nadalje redno predaval. Istega leta je postal dopisni član Slovenske Akademije Znanosti in Umetnosti.
Nadaljna sobotna leta: CERN (1983/84), Los Alamos Nat. Laboratory, USA (1987). Bil je gostujoči profesor na University of California at Berkeley, USA (1997).
Od 1978 je bil urednik in od 1989 do 1997 glavni urednik revije Zeitschrift für Physik A, in do konca leta 1999 glavni urednik revije naslednice, The European Physical Journal A.
Od 1972 do upokojitve je bil član mnogih znanstvenih komitejev, pri DESY, CERN, GSI, Berkeley Lawrence Laboratory, Los Alamos National Laboratory in svetovalec pri nemškem ministrstvu za znanost.
Od septembra 2000 je zaslužni profesor na Max-Planck-Institut für Kernphysik in Univerze v Heidelbergu.
L. 2005 je bil nagrajen z Stern-Gerlach-Medal za pionirsko delo v spektroskopiji hiperjeder.
Publikacij ima okoli 450, v zadnjih dvajsetih letih 380 s 14345 citati. Več kot 80 % publikacij je v okviru večjih sodelonaj. Naslednjih pet publikacij je izdal s svojimi študenti.

Deorientation Measurement in 20Ne, Annals of Physics (1971) Vol.63 577
Observation of Gamma-Rays from the Excited States of Hypernuclei, Physics Letters (1971) 36B 412
Excited States of Light Hypernuclei, Nuclear Physics B60 (1973) 1-25
The Proton Microprobe: A Powerful Tool for Nondestructive Trace Element Analysis, SCIENCE (1978) Vol. 199, 765-768
Gottfried Sum from the Ratio Fn2 =Fp 2 , Physical Review Letters (1991) Vol. 66 2712
Diffractive Elastic Scattering and Hadronic Radii: Geometric and Pomeron Approaches, Physical Review D (1992) Vol. 46 990
Trije učbeniki, vsi pri založbi Springer, Nemčija:
Particles and Nuclei, first edition 1993, v angleščini, nemščini, italijanščini in japonščini (soavtorji Rith, Scholz, Zetsche)
Scattering and Structure (1999), v angleščini in nemščini (Koautor Rosina)
Anschauliche Physik (2011) v nemščini.

(november 2011)