Sigurd Hofmann#

Sadly, this member passed away.
Membership Number:3039
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:PHYSICS & ENGINEERING SCIENCES
Elected:2011
Main Country of Residence:GERMANY


Sigurd Hofmann passed away June 17, 2022.

Positions Held
  • 1974 - present Physicist at the GSI Helmholtz Centre for Heavy Ion Research

Fields of Scholarship
  • Separator for heavy Ion reaction products

Honours and Awards
  • 1998 Honorary Professor at the Goethe-Universität in Frankfurt am Main
  • 1984 "Physics Award" of the German Physical Society (together with Gottfried Münzenberg, Willibrord Reisdorf and Karl-Heinz Schmidt)
  • 1996 Otto Hahn Prize of the City of Frankfurt am Main (together with Gottfried Münzenberg)
  • 1996 "Doctor honoris causa" of the Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Comenius University of Bratislava, Slovakia
  • 1997 "G.N. Flerov Prize" of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, Russia
  • 1998 "Honorary Professor" of the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  • 1998 "SUN-AMCO Medal" of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics
  • 2001 "Doctor honoris causa" of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, Russia
  • 2002 "First Prize" of the Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (JINR) in Dubna, Russia
  • 2004 "Distinguished Professor" of the Josef Buchmann Foundation and the Department of Physics of the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main, Germany
  • 2006 "Roentgen Medal" of the City of Remscheid-Lennep, Germany, place of birth of Conrad Roentgen
  • 2009 "Helmholtz Professor" of the Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres (HGF)
  • 2011 "Nicolaus Copernicus Medal" of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw, Poland
  • 2011 "Medal of the City of Torun" and Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun, Poland
  • Member of the German Physical Society
  • Member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences
  • Foreign member of the Polish Academy of Arts and Sciences


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