Today (March 17, 1940) is the
birthday of the German physicist Godfrey Moonsenberg, who discovered elements
such as barium, Asian, martyrium, dormcitatium, rhodium, and copernicium.
Gottfried Münzenberg was born on
March 17, 1940, in Northausen, Satsoni, Germany, the son of Pater Eins and
Ellen Münzenberg, of a family of Reformed church ministers. Throughout his life, he was deeply involved in the influence of physics on theological and
philosophical theories. 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, Germany, in 1971. In 1976, he moved
to the department of nuclear chemistry at GSI in Darmstadt, Germany, which was
headed by Peter Armbruster.
In 1976 he moved to the CSI
Department of Atomic Chemistry in Germany, headed by Peter Ambroseider, at the
University of Edmont Technical University. He played a leading role in the
construction of SHIP, the 'Separator of Heavy Ion Reaction Products'. He was
the driving force in the discovery of the cold heavy ion fusion and the
discovery of the elements bohrium (Z = 107), hassium (Z = 108), meitnerium (Z =
109), darmstadtium (Z = 110), roentgenium (Z = 111), and copernicium (Z = 112).
In 1984, he became head of the new GSI project, the fragment separator, a
project which opened new research topics, such as interactions of relativistic
heavy ions with the matter, production and separation of exotic nuclear beams and
structure of exotic nuclei. He directed the Nuclear Structure and Nuclear
Chemistry department of the GSI and was a professor of physics at the University
of Mainz until he retired in March 2005.
All his life, he has been deeply concerned about physics's philosophical
and theological implications. Among the rewards he received should
be mentioned the Röntgen-Prize of the University of Giessen in 1983 and
(together with Sigurd Hofmann) the Otto-Hahn-Prize of
Frankfurt/Main in 1996.
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Professor of Physics, Nehru Memorial College, Puthanampatti, Trichy.
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