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RWTH professor receives International
Prize in Physics
 Aachen On Wednesday the main committee
of the German Research Foundation (DFG) has
announced the Prize winners of the Gottfried
Wilhelm-Leibniz Programme, among them, RWTH
Professor Dr. Martin Benecke (Theoretical
Particle Physics). A total of three
scientists was chosen from 158 proposals.
Benecke will receive 2.5 Million Euros for
his research projects.
“This is a reputable prize, so far only a
few researchers from RWTH Aachen received
the price,” said Professor Guenter Fluegge,
former head of the Chair in experimental
partical physics at RWTH Aachen University
and today foundation programme coordinator
at the Oman-German University of Technology
(OGTech), which is affiliated to RWTH Aachen
University. “Beneke is famous in his field.
He has unique methods of calculations and is
building bridges between prognoses,
theoretical physics models and precise
measurements at the modern huge partical
accelerators,” said Fluegge.
Professor Martin Benecke studied Physics,
Mathematics and Philosophy in Konstanz,
Cambridge and Heidelberg, where he attained
his Diploma degree in 1991. Only two years
later he received his doctorate at the TU
München on the structure of dysfunctional
series in higher order. He absolved his
postdoctoral studies in Heidelberg in 1998.
As early as 1999, Beneke, who had just
turned 33, became the head of the Chair of
Theortecial Physics E at RWTH Aachen
University.
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