Background
Armbruster, Peter was born on July 25, 1931 in Dachau, Bavaria.
Armbruster, Peter was born on July 25, 1931 in Dachau, Bavaria.
Studies in physics, Technology University, Stuttgart, Germany, 1954. Studies in physics, Technology University, Munich, 1957. Doctor of Philosophy, Technology University, Munich, 1961.
Habilitation, Technology University, Munich, 1964.
His major research fields are fission, interaction of heavy ions in matter and atomic physics with fission product beams at the Research Centre of Jülich (1965 to 1970). He was Senior Scientist at the Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung Darmstadt, Graduate Student Instructor, from 1971 to 1996. From 1989 to 1992 he was research Director of the European Institut Laue-Langevin (ILL), Grenoble.
Since 1996 he has been involved in a project on incineration of nuclear waste by spallation and fission reactions.
He was affiliated as professor to the University of Cologne (1968) and the Darmstadt University of Technology since 1984. The American Chemical Society honoured Peter Armbruster 1997 as one of few non-Americans with the "Nuclear Chemistry Award".