Friedwardt Winterberg
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Friedwart Winterberg
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June 12, 1929 Berlin, Germany |
| Residence | Germany, United States |
| Citizenship | American, previously German |
| Fields | Physics |
| Alma mater | Max Planck Institute |
| Doctoral advisor | Werner Heisenberg |
| Known for |
General relativity Nuclear rocket propulsion GPS |
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Courtesy NASA Marshall Space Flight Center and University of Alabama in Huntsville
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Friedwardt Winterberg (born June 12, 1929) is a German-American theoretical physicist and research professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. With more than 260 publications and three books, he is known for his research in areas spanning general relativity, Planck scale physics, nuclear fusion, and plasmas. His work in nuclear rocket propulsion earned him the 1979 Hermann Oberth Gold Medal of the Wernher von Braun International Space Flight Foundation and in 1981 a citation by the Nevada Legislature. He is also an honorary member of the German Aerospace Society Lilienthal-Oberth.
He is known for his proposal to put accurate atomic clocks on Earth-orbiting satellites in order to directly test General Relativity, his fusion activism, his first proposal to experimentally test Elsasser's theory of the geodynamo, his defense of rocket scientist Arthur Rudolph, and his involvement in the Albert Einstein-David Hilbert priority dispute.
Winterberg was born in 1929 in Berlin, Germany. In 1953 he received his MSc from the University of Frankfurt working under Friedrich Hund, and in 1955 he received his PhD in physics from the Max Planck Institute, Göttingen, as a student of Werner Heisenberg. In 1959, Winterberg was brought to the United States as part of Operation Paperclip. Friedwardt was 15 at the end of the war. Paperclip continued to recruit German scientists through the Cold War to prevent them from working for the Soviets.
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