Otto Hittmair | |
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| Born | (1924-03-16)16 March 1924 |
| Died | 5 September 2003(2003-09-05) (aged 79) Nordkette mountains near Innsbruck |
| Alma mater | University of Innsbruck |
| Known for | nuclear reactions |
| Awards | Decoration of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria(1980)[1] Wilhelm Exner Medal(1980)[2] |
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| Fields | physics |
Otto Hittmair (1924–2003) was anAustrian theoretical physicist who made contributions toquantum mechanics,superconductivity andunified field theory. From 1987 to 1991 he was President of theAustrian Academy of Sciences.[4]
Otto Hittmair was born in Innsbruck (Tyrol) on 16 March 1924. He graduated with distinction from theUniversity of Innsbruck in 1942. He worked withErwin Schrödinger at theDublin Institute for Advanced Studies in the late 1940s and together with him, published work on aunified field theory. He worked abroad at theInstitut Henri Poincaré, theUniversity of Sydney, and theMassachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge where he was a Fulbright scholar.
His specialty was nuclear reactions, especially stripping reactions, in which nucleons are exchanged between the scattering nuclei. In 1958–1960 he worked at the Atomic Institute of the Austrian Universities and in 1960 became Professor of Theoretical Physics and Director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics at the Technical University of Vienna.
He was Dean of the Faculty of Science from 1968 to 1969 and thenRector of the Technical University of Vienna from 1977 to 1979.
Otto Hittmair died on 5 September 2003 in a climbing accident in theNordkette mountain range near Innsbruck. The main-belt asteroid 10782 Hittmair discovered in 1991 is named after him.[5] Otto-Hittmair-Platz in Innsbruck is named in his honor.
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