The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Physics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Herbert Walther sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 623 publications — 71st percentile
71% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 1,469 publications or more.
The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Physics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Herbert Walther sits on this spectrum.
This scientist: 94 D-Index — 47th percentile
47% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.
The last bar groups every scientist with 185 D-Index or more.
Herbert Walther was affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany throughout their career. Their research spanned multiple areas within the social sciences, with a particular focus on experimental behavioral economics, evolutionary game theory and cooperation, as well as culture, economy, and development studies.
The scientist's recent scholarly output consisted of papers published in the SSRN Electronic Journal. Notable works included two papers in 2023, both titled Emotional Expected Utility, Gender and the Ultimatum Game. These publications contributed to a body of research in social sciences and overlapped with the interdisciplinary domains of safety research, sociology and political science, and demography.
Throughout their career, Herbert Walther worked largely independently as there were no frequent co-authors noted in the available data.
Recognition for their scientific contributions included several notable awards. Among these were the Frederic Ives Medal from The Optical Society in 2003, awarded for work related to quantum optics including the development of the micromaser and demonstration of Wigner crystallization of laser-cooled ions.
Other honors included the Stern-Gerlach Medal from the German Physical Society in 1998, the designation as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1998 with a citation acknowledging fundamental contributions to the quantum optics of atoms, and the Max Born Medal and Prize from the German Physical Society and Institute of Physics awarded in 1978.
Gerhard Rempe;Herbert Walther;Norbert Klein
D. Meschede;H. Walther;G. Müller
Marian O. Scully;Marian O. Scully;Berthold-Georg Englert;Herbert Walther
Herbert Walther;Benjamin T. H. Varcoe;Berthold-Georg Englert;Thomas Becker
G. G. Paulus;F. Grasbon;H. Walther;P. Villoresi
W. Becker;Felix Grasbon;R. Kopold;D. B. Milošević
Marlan O. Scully;M. Suhail Zubairy;M. Suhail Zubairy;Girish S. Agarwal;Herbert Walther
P. Salières;B. Carré;L. Le Déroff;F. Grasbon
Matthias Keller;Birgit Lange;Kazuhiro Hayasaka;Wolfgang Lange
G. G. Paulus;W. Nicklich;Huale Xu;P. Lambropoulos
G. Rempe;F. Schmidt-Kaler;H. Walther
Frank Diedrich;Herbert Walther
Gerhard Georg Paulus;Fabrizio Lindner;Herbert Walther;Andrius Baltuška
G G Paulus;W Becker;W Nicklich;H Walther
F. Diedrich;E. Peik;J. M. Chen;W. Quint
A. Dorsel;J. D. McCullen;P. Meystre;E. Vignes
Fabrizio Lindner;Michael G. Schätzel;Herbert Walther;Herbert Walther;Andrius Baltuška
Enrique Solano;Girish S. Agarwal;Herbert Walther
G. R. Guthöhrlein;M. Keller;K. Hayasaka;W. Lange
B. Abbott;R. Abbott;R. Adhikari;A. Ageev;A. Ageev
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