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D-Index
121
Citations
112204
World Ranking
763
National Ranking
68

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2008 - Lise Meitner Prize, European Physical Society
  • 1974 - Max Born Medal and Prize, German Physical Society, Institute of Physics

Overview

Walter Greiner was affiliated with the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies in Germany. Their research focused primarily on topics within physics and astronomy, contributing notably to subfields such as nuclear and high energy physics, and atomic and molecular physics, and optics.

The main topics addressed in their work included:

  • Quantum Chromodynamics and particle interactions
  • Quantum superfluid helium dynamics
  • Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies

Greiner published at least one paper titled "Chiral symmetries in nuclear physics" in 2020, which appeared in the journal HNPS Advances in Nuclear Physics.

Throughout their career, Greiner frequently collaborated with several researchers, including:

  • D. Zschiesche
  • P. Papazoglou
  • S. Schramm
  • W. Ch. Beckmann
  • Jürgen Schaffner-Bielich

Their work was published in venues such as:

  • HNPS Advances in Nuclear Physics

Walter Greiner received several awards, among them the Lise Meitner Prize from the European Physical Society in 2008 and the Max Born Medal and Prize presented by the German Physical Society and the Institute of Physics in 1974.

Best Publications

  • Geant4—a simulation toolkit

    S. Agostinelli;J. Allison;K. Amako;J. Apostolakis

  • Microscopic models for ultrarelativistic heavy ion collisions

    S.A. Bass;H. Weber;C. Hartnack;J. Konopka

  • RELATIVISTIC HADRON-HADRON COLLISIONS IN THE ULTRA-RELATIVISTIC QUANTUM MOLECULAR DYNAMICS MODEL

    M Bleicher;E Zabrodin;E Zabrodin;E Zabrodin;C Spieles;S A Bass

  • Microscopic Models for Ultrarelativistic Heavy Ion Collisions

    S. A. Bass;M. Belkacem;M. Bleicher;M. Brandstetter

  • High energy heavy ion collisions—probing the equation of state of highly excited hardronic matter

    Horst Stöcker;Horst Stöcker;Walter Greiner;Walter Greiner

  • Relativistic Hadron-Hadron Collisions in the Ultra-Relativistic Quantum Molecular Dynamics Model (UrQMD)

    M. Bleicher;E. Zabrodin;C. Spieles;S.A. Bass

  • Quantum electrodynamics of strong fields

    J Reinhardt;W Greiner

  • Relativistic Quantum Mechanics. Wave Equations

    Walter Greiner

  • Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

    Walter Greiner;Ludwig Neise;Horst Stocker

  • The Casimir effect

    Günter Plunien;Berndt Müller;Walter Greiner

  • Quantum Electrodynamics

    Joachim Reinhardt;Walter Greiner

  • Relativistic Quantum Mechanics

    Walter Greiner

  • Modelling the many-body dynamics of heavy ion collisions : present status and future perspective

    Ch. Hartnack;Rajeev K. Puri;J. Aichelin;J. Konopka

  • Shell structure of superheavy nuclei in self-consistent mean-field models

    Michaël Bender;Michaël Bender;K. Rutz;Paul Gerhard Reinhard;Paul Gerhard Reinhard;Joachim Alexander Maruhn

  • Nuclear Shock Waves in Heavy-Ion Collisions

    Werner Scheid;Hans Muller;Walter Greiner

  • Superheavy nuclei in self-consistent nuclear calculations

    K. Rutz;Michaël Bender;Thomas Bürvenich;Tanja Schilling

  • The asymmetrie two center shell model

    Joachim Maruhn;Walter Greiner

  • Quantum Mechanics: Symmetries

    Walter Greiner;Berndt Müller;D. Allan Bromley

  • Quantum Mechanics: An Introduction

    Walter Greiner;Joseph Dreitlein

  • Poincare invariant Hamiltonian dynamics: Modelling multi-hadronic interactions in a phase space approach

    Heinz Sorge;Horst Stöcker;Walter Greiner

Frequent Co-Authors

Horst Stöcker
Horst Stöcker Goethe University Frankfurt
Berndt Müller
Berndt Müller Duke University
Johann Rafelski
Johann Rafelski University of Arizona
Steffen A. Bass
Steffen A. Bass Duke University
Dirk H. Rischke
Dirk H. Rischke Goethe University Frankfurt
Paul-Gerhard Reinhard
Paul-Gerhard Reinhard University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Miklos Gyulassy
Miklos Gyulassy Columbia University
Krzysztof Redlich
Krzysztof Redlich University of Wrocław
Larry McLerran
Larry McLerran University of Washington
G. Münzenberg
G. Münzenberg Manipal Academy of Higher Education

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