Wolfgang Wild (physicist)

Wolfgang Wild
Wolfgang Wild
1st Bavarian Minister of Science
	In office; 1986–1989
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	[de]
2nd President of the Technical University of Munich
	In office; 1980–1986
Preceded by	Ulrich Grigull
Succeeded by	Herbert Kupfer
Personal details
Born	20 September 1930 (age 90); Bayreuth, Germany
Nationality	German
Education	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich
	Scientific career
Thesis	Tröpfchenmodell des Atomkerns und Zweikörperkräfte (1955)

Wolfgang Wild (born 20 September 1930) is a German nuclear physicist, academic administrator and politician. He was President of the Technical University of Munich between 1980 and 1986 and Bavarian Minister of Science between 1986 and 1989.^[1]

Career[]

Wild studied physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. After receiving his doctorate in 1955, he first worked as an assistant to Heinz Maier-Leibnitz at the Technical University of Munich. In 1957 he moved to Heidelberg University, where he investigated atomic nuclei with J. Hans D. Jensen, who later won the Nobel Prize.

His habilitation in 1960 was followed the following year by an associate professorship at the Free University of Berlin. In November of the same year, he took over the Chair of Theoretical Physics at the Department of Physics of the Technical University of Munich.^[1]

After the 1986 Bavarian state election, Franz Josef Strauss appointed Wild the first Bavarian Minister of Science.

show v t Presidents of the Technical University of Munich
Directors (1868–1903)	Karl Maximilian von Bauernfeind (1868–1874, 1880–1889) Wilhelm von Beetz (1874–1877) (1877–1880) (1889–1895) (1895–1900) Walther von Dyck (1900–1903)
Rectors (1903–1976)	Walther von Dyck (1903–1906, 1919–1925) Friedrich von Thiersch (1906–1908) Moritz Schröter (1908–1911) Siegmund Günther (1911–1913) (1913–1915) (1915–1917) (1917–1919) Jonathan Zenneck (1925–1927) (1927–1929) (1929–1931) (1931–1933) (1933–1935) (1935–1938) (1938–1945) (1945) Georg Faber (1945–1946) Robert Vorhoelzer (1946–1947) Ludwig Föppl (1947–1948) (1948–1951) (1951–1954) Robert Sauer (1954–1956) (1956–1958) (1958–1960) (1960–1962) (1962–1964) (1964–1965) (1965–1968) (1968–1970) Heinz Schmidtke (1970–1972) Ulrich Grigull (1972–1976)
Presidents (since 1976)	Ulrich Grigull (1976–1980) Wolfgang Wild (1980–1986) Herbert Kupfer (1986–1987) Otto Meitinger (1987–1995) Wolfgang A. Herrmann (1995–2019) Thomas Hofmann (since 2019)

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Wolfgang Wild

1st Bavarian Minister of Science
In office 1986–1989
Preceded by	Office established
Succeeded by	[de]
2nd President of the Technical University of Munich
In office 1980–1986
Preceded by	Ulrich Grigull
Succeeded by	Herbert Kupfer

Personal details
Born	(1930-09-20) 20 September 1930 (age 90) Bayreuth, Germany
Nationality	German
Education	Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich

Scientific career
Thesis	Tröpfchenmodell des Atomkerns und Zweikörperkräfte (1955)