Back
العربية
Theodor W. Hänsch
Theodor W. Hänsch · No machine-readable author provided. Blinking Spirit assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
Person

Theodor W. Hänsch

b. 1941

German physicist and nobel laureate (born 1941)

Born
30 Oct 1941 · Heidelberg

Life timeline

Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.

Showing 98 years
  1. 30 Oct 1941BornBorn in Heidelberg
  2. 1978AwardHumboldt Prize
  3. 1979AwardKlung Wilhelmy Science Award
  4. 1983AwardComstock Prize in Physics
  5. 1983AwardHerbert P. Broida Prize
  6. 1985AwardWilliam F. Meggers Award
  7. 1986AwardAlbert A. Michelson Medal
  8. 1989AwardGottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
  9. 1989AwardKing Faisal Prize in Science
  10. 1995AwardEinstein Prize for Laser Science
  11. 1996AwardArthur L. Schawlow Prize in Laser Science
  12. 2000AwardPhilip Morris Research Prize
  13. 2000AwardStern–Gerlach Medal

Loading from Wikipedia and Wikidata…

Meanwhile in the world

Major world events during their lifetime (1941 – today).

  1. 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
  2. 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
  3. 1941Operation Barbarossa
  4. 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
  5. 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
  6. 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
  7. 19501950 FIFA World Cup
  8. 1950 – 1953Korean War
  9. 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
  10. 19541954 FIFA World Cup
  11. 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
  12. 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
  13. 1956Suez Crisis
  14. 19581958 FIFA World Cup
  15. 1959Antarctic Treaty System
  16. 19621962 FIFA World Cup
  17. 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
  18. 19661966 FIFA World Cup
  19. 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
  20. 1968Prague Spring
  21. 1969Apollo 11 Moon landing
  22. 19721972 Summer Olympics
  23. 19741974 FIFA World Cup
  24. 19781978 FIFA World Cup
  25. 1978 – 1979Iranian Revolution
  26. 1979 – 1989Soviet–Afghan War
  27. 1980 – 1988Iran–Iraq War
  28. 19841984 Summer Olympics
  29. 1985Schengen Agreement
  30. 19891989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre
  31. 1989Fall of the Berlin Wall
  32. 19901990 FIFA World Cup
  33. 1991Dissolution of the Soviet Union
  34. 19941994 FIFA World Cup
  35. 1994 – 1996First Chechen War
  36. 19981998 FIFA World Cup
  37. 2001 – 2021War in Afghanistan
  38. 2003 – 2011Iraq War
  39. 20042004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
  40. 20062006 FIFA World Cup

Biography

Theodor Wolfgang Hänsch (German pronunciation: [ˈteːodoːɐ̯ ˈhɛnʃ] ; born 30 October 1941) is a German physicist. He received one-fourth of the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics for "contributions to the development of laser-based precision spectroscopy, including the optical frequency comb technique", sharing the prize with John L. Hall and Roy J. Glauber.

Hänsch is Director of the Max-Planck-Institut für Quantenoptik (quantum optics) and Professor of experimental physics and laser spectroscopy at LMU Munich in Munich, Bavaria, Germany.

Text from the Wikipedia article Theodor W. Hänsch, CC BY-SA 4.0

About this information

Dates and life events come from this person’s Wikidata entry.

We only show events that the sources give a date for. Anything without a date is left out rather than guessed.