Walter Oelert
German physicist
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Walter Oelert (14 July 1942 – 25 November 2024) was a professor at the Juelich Research Center in Germany.[1]
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Born14 July 1942
Died25 November 2024 (aged 82)
KnownforProducing the first antihydrogen atoms
FieldsPhysics
Walter Oelert | |
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| Born | 14 July 1942 |
| Died | 25 November 2024 (aged 82) |
| Known for | Producing the first antihydrogen atoms |
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| Fields | Physics |
| Institutions | Research Center Juelich |
Research
In 1995 under the leadership of Professor Walter Oelert, the international group of physicists in the CERN laboratory managed to show that they had obtained experimentally nine atoms of antihydrogen in a particle accelerator.[2] Later research allowed the CERN scientists to collect anti-protons among low-energy positrons until they combine into anti-atoms and store them at very low temperatures.[3][4]
