Hans Grassmann

Laureate

Grassmann

Professore aggregato (Univ. of Udine) / Director, Isomorph srl.

Italy

The Nuclear-Free Future Award, 2011

Hans Grassmann has a Diploma Thesis with H. Wegener (Erlangen), and the PhD with H.Faissner (Aachen). He worked at Univerity of Aachen and CERN (UA1), Fermilab (CDF), SCC Laboratory (Dallas), and also at the University of Udine. Grassmann makes contributions to elementary particle physics (CsI calorimetry, W charge asymmetry, discovery of top quark), physics of information (application of vector algebra and Boolean algebra for problems of information processing), and renewable energies (development of linear mirror systems, solar pyrolysis). Grassmann is both an author of four books about physics and society and about 250 scientific articles.