Frank Natterer
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20 July 1941 Wangen im Allgäu, Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Doctoral advisor | Lothar Collatz |
Frank Natterer (July 20, 1941) is a German mathematician. He was born in Wangen im Allgäu, Germany. Natterer pioneered and shaped the field of mathematical methods in imaging including computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and ultrasonic imaging).
After studies at the Universities of Freiburg and Hamburg Frank Natterer in 1968 earned his PhD with a thesis “Einschließungen für die großen Eigenwerte gewöhnlicher Differentialgleichungen zweiter und vierter Ordnung“ under the supervision of Prof. Lothar Collatz. In 1971, he made the habilitation “Verallgemeinerte Splines und singuläre Rand-Eigenwertaufgaben gewöhnlicher Differentialgleichungen“. Following a visiting assistant professorship at Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana (USA) he was full professor at the Universität des Saarlandes, Saarbrücken (Germany), from 1973-1981. He was Director of the “Institut für Numerische und instrumentelle Mathematik” of the Westfälische Wilhelms Universität, Münster, Germany, from 1981 until he retired from active teaching in 2006.
In 2002, he received an honorary doctorate at Universität des Saarlandes in recognition of his leading role and achievements in the field of mathematical methods in imaging.
He has published close to 100 scientific papers and two books and is in possession of numerous patents. He has 19 scientific descendants, some of whom hold professorships in Germany or the USA.
In 1975, Natterer proved pointwise convergence of finite element methods. Starting in 1977, he focused on mathematical methods in computed tomography. In this field, he not only developed algorithms but also worked on tomographic scanners. His two books on this topic, “The Mathematics of Computerized Tomography” (1986, translated to Russian in 1990, new edition in 2001 in the series „Classics in Applied Mathematics“), and “Mathematical Methods in Image Reconstruction” (2001)) are considered standard works in this field of science. His main scientific contributions to the area of computed tomography are:
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