Richard M. Weiner

Richard M. Weiner (6 February 1930 – 13 August 2020 ) was a professor of theoretical physics at the University of Marburg in Marburg, Germany and an associate of the Laboratoire de Physique Théorique at Paris-Sud University in Orsay, France.

Biography Weiner was born 1930 in Cernăuți, Kingdom of Romania (presently Chernivtsi, Ukraine). He was a survivor of the Chernivtsi ghetto during World War II. He then moved to Bucharest, where he studied physics at the University of Bucharest. In a paper from 1956, he predicted the phenomenon of isomeric shift, his calculations showing that it should be measurable by atomic spectroscopy.

Work Richard Weiner predicted the isomeric shift which has found wide applications in many fields of physics. He also predicted the hot spot effect in subatomic physics and has made contributions to the theory of Bose–Einstein correlations being also the author of the only textbook on Bose–Einstein correlations. He was the initiator and co-organizer of the series of meetings LESIP. He also published a book titled Analogies in Physics and Life, A scientific Autobiography. He was asked for interviews, among others by the Frankfurter Rundschau and was invited by Hessischer Rundfunk within the series Doppelkopf dedicated to renowned personalities.

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