Peter Hänggi

Peter Hänggi (born November 29, 1950) is a theoretical physicist from Switzerland, Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Augsburg. He is best known for his original works on Brownian motion and the Brownian motor concept, stochastic resonance and dissipative systems (classical and quantum mechanical). Other topics include, driven quantum tunneling, such as the discovery of coherent destruction of tunneling (CDT), phononics, relativistic statistical mechanics and the foundations of classical and quantum thermodynamics.

Career He studied physics and was awarded B.Sc. (1972), M.Sc. (1974) and Ph.D. degrees (1977) at the University of Basel.

He was a Postgraduate Research Associate at the University of California, San Diego (1979–80), Assistant Professor of Physics, Polytechnic Institute of New York, New York (1980–1983), Associate Professor, Polytechnic Institute of New York, New York (1983–1987) and full professor at the University of Augsburg (1986 to present). However, the attribute's relation to Professor Hänggi's research is not clear.

Corollaries: The more vital your research, the fewer people will understand it. You write a nontrivial paper and you likely will be the only one who will remember it.

Honors and awards He was elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 1988 "for distinguished contributions to nonlinear statistical physics and reaction rate theory and for elucidating the influence of non-Markovian memory effects and dissipative tunneling in equilibrium and non equilibrium systems".

In 2003, he was elected to membership in the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina,

Notable review papers