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Herwig Schopper

German experimental physicist

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born: 1924
died: 2025
age at death: 101
known for: physicist, pedagogue, university teacher

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who herwig schopper is

Herwig Franz Schopper was a German experimental physicist. He researched and taught at the University of Erlangen, the University of Mainz from 1958, the University of Karlsruhe from 1961, and the University of Hamburg from 1973. The same year, he became chairman of the directorate of the German DESY research centre. He was the director general of CERN for European research from 1981 to 1988.

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