Hans-Peter Dürr

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Hans-Peter Dürr (October 7, 1929 in Stuttgart), German physicist, is a quintessential transdisciplinarian. In addition to nuclear and quantum physics, elementary particles and gravitation, epistemology, and philosophy, he has advocated responsible scientific and energy policies.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Honors 3 Honorary memberships and memberships in international organisations 4 Books – Selection 5 External links

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From 1978 to 1980 he was executive Director of the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics (Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics) and of the Werner Heisenberg Institute for Physics (1971, 1978-1980, 1987-1992). He was Vice executive director at the Max Planck Institute for Physics (Werner-Heisenberg-Institute) 1972-1977, 1981-1986 and 1993-1995. Until 1997 he was professor of physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University, both in Munich, Germany.

Dürr completed his Ph.D. in 1956 after studying physics in Stuttgart (Dipl.-Phys. 1953) and at University of California in Berkeley, supervised by Edward Teller. In 1962 he was a guest-professor in Berkeley, California and Madras, India.

As "the" follower of Prof. Werner Heisenberg, he specializes in nuclear physics, quantum physics, elementary particles and gravitation, epistemo