Johann Rafelski
- January 10, 2024
- Physicist
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Johann Rafelski Biography
| Name | Johann Rafelski |
| Birthday | May 19 |
| Birth Year | 1950 |
| Place Of Birth | Poland |
| Birth Country | Poland |
| Birth Sign | Taurus |
| Children(s) | Susanne Rafelski, Marc Rafelski |
Johann Rafelski is one of the most popular and richest Physicist who was born on May 19, 1950 in Poland, Poland.
Johann Rafelski (born 19 May 1950) is a German-American theoretical physicist. He is professor of Physics at The University of Arizona in Tucson, guest scientist at CERN (Geneva), and has been LMU-Excellent Guest Professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich in Munich, Germany.
Rafelski studied physics at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt, Germany, where he received his PhD in the spring of 1973 working with Walter Greiner on strong fields and muonic atom tests of QED. In 1973 he began a series of postdoctoral fellowships: first at the University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia) with Abraham Klein, then at the Argonne National Laboratory near Chicago where he worked with John W. Clark of Washington University in St. Louis and Michael Danos of National Bureau of Standards (now National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)). In spring 1977 Rafelski moved for a few months to work at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research in Germany, then continued on to a fellowship at CERN, where he worked with Rolf Hagedorn and John S. Bell; Rafelski remains associated with CERN to this day. In the fall of 1979 Rafelski was appointed tenured associate professor at Johann Wolfgang Goethe University where he taught for 4 years, while collaborating closely with Hagedorn and with Berndt Müller and Gerhard Soff, whom Rafelski mentored in his PhD work. Rafelski then accepted the chair of Theoretical Physics at the University of Cape Town (South Africa) where he created a Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics Institute before moving to The University of Arizona in the fall of 1987. During these years he was also a guest scientist at NIST in Washington, D.C. His interests in muon-catalyzed fusion and other table-top fusion methods led him to a collaboration led by Steven E. Jones working at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The start-up of experimental work on quark-gluon plasma has led to another enduring collaboration with the University of Paris 7-Jussieu involving Jean Letessier.
Johann Rafelski Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Physicist |
| House | Living in own house. |
Johann Rafelski is one of the richest Physicist from Poland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Johann Rafelski 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Rafelski was born in Krakow, Poland, on May 19, 1950. In 1973 Rafelski married Helga Betz; their union produced two children. Dr. Helga Rafelski died of cancer in 2000. In 2003 Rafelski married the American novelist Victoria Grossack.
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