Werner Gruber
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Werner Gruber (born 15 March 1970, in Ostermiething) is an Austrian physicist, author, lecturer, and cabaret artist and is well known from ORF and as a member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria (SPÖ).
Biography[]
Gruber grew up in Ansfelden, Upper Austria and graduated in 1999 with a degree in physics from the University of Vienna. He then worked as a research assistant at the Institute for Experimental Physics at the University of Vienna. Since February 2013 Gruber manages the astronomical institutions of the Adult Education centers in Vienna - the Planetarium Wien, the Kuffner Observatory and the Urania Observatory.[1] He teaches the introduction to physics at the Medical Faculty of the Sigmund Freud University Vienna, and at the Institute of Experimental Physic at the University of Vienna.[2]
After performing on September 26, 2015, Gruber suffered a cardiac arrest, which he survived thanks to a prompt cardiac massage by his colleague Puntigam and a rapid successor rescue chain. He was then implanted with a pacemaker with a defibrillator and an internet connection. To be a "Sudden Death with Brain" he described in October 2015 as a great luck.[3] Gruber had previously tried to reduce excess weight in order to reduce the resulting health risks. After the operative training of a Gastric bypass surgery, he has lost 50 kg until November 2015.[4]
Gruber is also an active member of the Social Democratic Party of Austria.[5]
Popular scientific work[]
Gruber became known through popular scientific treatment of everyday physics in adult education courses in Vienna ("The Science of Star Trek", "The Physics of Paper Flying", "Culinary Physics"), in columns and on television appearances. With the theoretical physicist Heinz Oberhummer and the cabaret artist , he designed and presented the science cabaret Science Busters at the Rabenhof Theater in Vienna. In these events, science was presented in an entertaining way. The Science Busters also presented in this lineup a weekly radio column on the youth radio station FM4 of the ORF. In February 2016 Gruber announced to leave the Science Busters because of the death of Heinz Oberhummer.[6]
In 2012, Gruber was awarded the Vienna Prize for Public Education. 2013, this book Gedankenlesen durch Schneckenstreicheln (together with Martin Puntigam and Heinz Oberhummer) was awarded as Knowledge Book of the Year.
In early 2010 Gruber became known for a demonstration of the ineffectiveness of full body scanners, which are to be introduced in the security control at airports, on ZDF.[7] In 2015, Gruber gave an interview to the Austrian newspaper Kurier, where he said that human impact played a formative rol on climate change.[8]
Together with Heinz Oberhummer, Gruber act as a Klingon in two promotional videos from the on January 2015. In both videos Klingon was spoken to illustrate the diversity of the VHS language offering.[9][10]
Publications (Selection)[]
- Flirten mit den Sternen. Ecowin, Elsbethen bei Salzburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-7110-0186-3.
- (with Heinz Oberhummer und ): Das Universum ist eine Scheißgegend. Carl Hanser Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-446-44477-5.
- (with Heinz Oberhummer und Martin Puntigam): Gedankenlesen durch Schneckenstreicheln. Was wir von Tieren über Physik lernen können. Carl Hanser Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-446-43215-4.
- (with Heinz Oberhummer and Martin Puntigam): Wer nichts weiß, muss alles glauben. , 2010.
- (with Natascha Riahi and Christian Rupp): Die kleine Sonne auf großer Fahrt. , Troisdorf 2010.
- Die Genussformel: Kulinarische Physik , 25. August 2008. ISBN 978-3-902404-59-6
- Unglaublich einfach. Einfach unglaublich. Physik für jeden Tag. Ecowin Verlag, Salzburg 2006. ISBN 978-3-902404-37-4
- (with Natascha Riahi and Christian Rupp): Die Reise der kleinen Sonne. Bildungsverlag EINS, Troisdorf 2006, ISBN 978-3-427-50088-9.
- Hollywood und die Physik, Facultas-Verlag, Wien 2006.
Links[]
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- Literature by and about Werner Gruber in the German National Library catalogue
- Brain-Modelling: Physikalische Modelle über das Gehirn. Lecture by Werner Gruber at the University of Vienna.
- Website Science Busters.
- Zum Glück verstehen Terroristen nichts von Physik. (ger) Interview at Heise.de.
References[]
- ^ Werner Gruber leitet Planetarium, Kuffner- und Urania-Sternwarte (ger) wienerzeitung.at, 12. Oktober 2012.
- ^ University of Vienna (ger)
- ^ www.krone.at „Lebendig kriegt mich der Tod nicht!“ (ger)
- ^ Werner Gruber – „Diäten habe ich jede Menge ausprobiert und dabei immer zugenommen“ (ger)
- ^ Werner Gruber at www,spoe.wien.at (ger)
- ^ Werner Gruber steigt bei „Science Busters“ aus at www.krone.at (ger)
- ^ Physiker schmuggelt Sprengstoff durch Nacktscanner. at www.derstandard.at (ger)
- ^ Keine Panik. Die Hitze ist normal at www.kurier.at (ger)
- ^ YouTube: Sprachkurse an der VHS Wien – Spot (ger)
- ^ Klingonisch-Wiki: VHS Wien (ger)
- 1970 births
- Living people
- Austrian physicists
- 21st-century Austrian astronomers
- University of Vienna alumni
- University of Vienna faculty
- Social Democratic Party of Austria
- People from Linz-Land District