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Professor Dr. Eckhard Rebhan

Professor Dr. Eckhard Rebhan
Professor i.R.

Institut für Theoretische Physik II - Soft Matter
Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf
Building 25.33
Room O1.22
Universitätsstraße 1
D-40225 Düsseldorf, Germany

phone: +49-211-81-13659
e-mail: rebhan <at> thphy.uni-duesseldorf.de

retired since 2003
member of the executive board of the Working Group on Energy (Arbeitskreis für Energie, AKE) , German Physical Society (DPG)

Research

Magnetohydrodynamics and Plasma Physics
Hydrodynamics
Thermodynamics
Mathematical Physics
Relativity
Cosmology
Energy

Curriculum Vitae

1937	born in Nürnberg, Germany
1956 - 1959	study of physics at the university of Erlangen
1959 - 1963	study of physics at the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität in Munich
1963	Diplom in Physics
1965	PHD (Dr. rer. nat.) in Physics at the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität in Munich
1963 - 1977	research scientist at the Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching near Munich (Max Planck Society)
1968 - 1969	research scientist at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University, New York (USA)
1970 - 1976	lectures on special topics in theoretical physics at the Ludwig-Maximilian-Universität in Munich
1977 - 2003	Professor of Theoretical Physics at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität in Düsseldorf
1980 - 2000	occasionally visiting research scientist at: Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels (Belgium), University of Texas at Austin (USA), University of British Columbia, Vancouver (USA), Joint European Torus, Culham (UK) and Brown University, Providence (USA)
1993 - 1995	commissarial head of the Institut für Theoretische Physik II at the Heinrich-Heine-Universität
1995	visiting professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada
since 2003	retired
since 2004	executive board member of the Working Group on Energy (Arbeitskreis für Energie, AKE), German Physical Society (DPG).

Publications

About 60 publications in Journals and contributions to scientific books
a representative selection is found in http://books.google.com/

Recent Publication: Challenges for Future Energy Usage (pdf)

Books

Tanslator and Editor

Erforschung des Komplexen
(Piper, Munich, 1987) by G. Nicolis and I. Prigogine

Editor and coauthor

Energiehandbuch
(Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2002, out of print)

Author

Heißer als das Sonnenfeuer
(Piper, Munich, 1992, out of print, new edition in preparation)
Theoretische Physik I
(Spektrum-Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg, 1999 , out of print)
Theoretische Physik II
(Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2005, out of print)
Theoretische Physik: Mechanik
(Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg, + Elsevier, 2006 )
Theoretische Physik: Elektrodynamik
(Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg, + Elsevier, 2007)
Theoretische Physik: Quantenmechanik
(Spektrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg, + Springer, 2008)
Relativistische Quantenmechanik, Quantenfeldtheorie und Elementarteilchentheorie
(Spektrum Akademischer Verlag + Springer, Heidelberg, 2010)
Theoretische Physik: Thermodynamik und Statistik
(Spektrum Akademischer Verlag + Springer, Heidelberg, 2010)
Theoretische Physik: Realtivitätstheorie und Kosmologie
(Spektrum Akademischer Verlag + Springer, Heidelberg, in preparation, prospective date of appearence: middle of 2011).

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