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Walter KUTSCHERA
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Curriculum
Vitae 1939 Born in
Vienna, in the year nuclear fission was discovered, Sigmund Freud died, and
the Second World War started. 1965 Ph.D. in
Experimental Physics from the
University of Graz, Austria 1966-1993 27 years away from Austria working in
basic and applied nuclear physics at
various institutions, mainly in connection with tandem
accelerators: – Max-Planck-Institute for Nuclear Physics in
Heidelberg, Germany (3 years) – Physics Department of the Technical
University of Munich, Garching, Germany (8 years,
Habilitation in Experimental Physics in 1978) – Physics Dept of
the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan (1 year) –
Physics Division of Argonne National Laboratory in Chicago, USA (14
years, promotion to Senior Scientist in 1986) – Weizmann Institute of Science in Rehovot, and Racah Institute of
Physics of the Hebrew University in
Jerusalem, Israel (several visits, ~1
year) 1993-2007 Professor of Physics at the University
of Vienna, and Head of the Institute of Isotope Research and Nuclear
Physics.
Established the Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator (VERA), a
universal facility for Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS), based on a
3-MV Pelletron tandem accelerator. VERA is
operating since 1996, and was upgraded in 2001 to allow for AMS experiments
of “all” isotopes throughout the periodic table. In 2007 a second injector
with a 40-sample Cs-beam sputter source
was added to allow for a more versatile use of the AMS system. 1999-2000 President of the Austrian Physical
Society 2004-2006 Dean of the Faculty of Physics,
University of Vienna 2006-2007
Vice-Dean of the Faculty of
Physics, University of Vienna 2008-present Emeritus Professor of Physics at the
University of Vienna Awards
2006
Großes Silbernes Ehrenzeichen für Verdienste um die Republik
Österreich 2010 Erwin Schrödinger Prize of the Austrian
Academy of Sciences 2011 Fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science Research interests After 10 years in experimental nuclear
physics, my research focused since 1980 on the exploration of our world by
means of the “isotope language” utilizing both long-lived radioisotopes (cosmogenic and anthropogenic) and stable isotopes. This
research is performed with Accelerator Mass spectrometry (AMS) utilizing the
long-lived radioisotopes 10Be, 14C, 26Al, 36Cl,
39Ar, 41Ca, 44Ti, 55Fe, 59Ni,
60Fe, 81Kr, 126Sn, 129I, 182Hf,
205Pb, 210Pb, 236U, 244Pu, and
others. In this way,
information on physical and chemical phenomena in the seven
great domains of our environment at large (atmosphere, biosphere,
hydrosphere, cryosphere, lithosphere, cosmosphere, technosphere) are
investigated. Research fields touched so far:
archaeology, art, atmospheric science, atomic and molecular physics,
biomedicine, environmental physics, forensic medicine, Egyptology,
geochronology, geomorphology, geophysics, glaciology, groundwater dating,
nuclear astrophysics, nuclear physics, oceanography, paleoclimatology. In
addition, external-beam PIXE (Proton Induced X-ray Emission analysis) was
used at VERA to study the material composition of original silverpoint
drawings of Albrecht Dürer (1471-1528). Recently, my research focused on
(1) Search for Superheavy Elements in Nature with AMS, (2) Efforts to solve the puzzle of dating
the Minoan Eruption of Santorini, (3) 14C bomb peak dating of Human
DNA, (4) Measuring stable Pt isotopes in pre-solar nanodiamonds,
(5) Developing radiometric dating of ancient ice with the 26Al/10Be
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Selected
publications (2004-2012)
F. Dellinger, W. Kutschera,
K. Nicolussi, P. Schießling,
P. Steier, E.M. Wild R.J. Gehrke, R.G. Helmer R. Golser, H. Gnaser, W. Kutschera, A. Priller, P. Steier, A. Wallner Exotic
negative molecules in AMS
Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 259 (2007) 71-75 E.M. Wild, S. Guillen, W. Kutschera, H. Seidler, P. Steier Radiocarbon dating of the Peruvian Chachapoya/Inca site at the Laguna de los Condores Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 259 (2007) 378-383 W. Kutschera A homage to ECAART-9 and Florence Nucl.
Instr. and Meth. B
266 (2008) 2095-2098 P. Milota, I. Reiche, A. Duval, O. Forstner,
H. Guicharnaud, W. Kutschera, S. Merchel, A. Priller, M. Schreiner, P. Steier, E. Thobois, A. Wallner,
B. Wünschek, R. Golser PIXE measurements of renaissance
silverpoint drawings at VERA Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 266 (2008) 2279-2285 C. Vockenhuber, M. Bichler, A. Wallner, W. Kutschera, I.
Dillmann, F. Käppeler Measurement of the thermal neutron
capture cross section and the resonance integral of radioactive 182Hf Phys. Rev. C 77 (2008) 044608 F. Quinto, P. Steier, G. Wallner,
A. Wallner, M. Srncik, M. Bichler, W. Kutschera, F.
Terrasi, A. Petraglia, C.
Sabbarese The first use of 236U in
the general environment and near a shut-down nuclear power plant Appl.
Rad. Isot. 67 (2009) 1175-1780 S. W. Manning, C. Bronk Ramsey, W. Kutschera, T. Higham, B. Kromer, P. Steier, E. M. Wild Dating
the Santorini/Thera
eruption by radiocarbon: further discussion (AD 2006-2007) In: S. W. Manning, M. J. Bruce, eds., Tree-rings, Kings, and Old World Archaeology and Environment, Oxbow Books, Oxford (2009) pp. 299-316 M. Auer, D.
Wagenbach, E.M. Wild, A. Wallner, A. Priller, H.
Miller, C. Schlosser, W. Kutschera Cosmogenic 26Al in the atmosphere and the prospect of a 26Al/10Be
chronometer to date old ice Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 287 (2009) 453-462 W. Kutschera AMS and climate change Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 268 (2010) 693-700 F. Dellinger, O. Forstner, R. Golser, W. Kutschera, A. Priller,
P. Steier, A. Wallner, G. Winkler Search for a superheavy
nuclide with A=292 and neutron-deficient thorium isotopes in natural thorianite Nucl. Instr. and Meth. B 268 (2010) 1287-1290 F. Dellinger, W. Kutschera, O. Forstner,
R. Golser, A. Priller, P.Steier, A. Wallner, G. Winkler Upper limits for the existence of long-lived
isotopes of roentgenium in natural gold Phys. Rev. C 83 (2011) 015801-1 to 9 F. Dellinger, O. Forstner, R. Golser, A. Priller, P.Steier, A. Wallner, G. Winkler, W. Kutschera Ultrasensitive search for long-lived superheavy nuclides in the mass range A = 288 to A = 300 in natural Pt, Pb, and Bi Phys. Rev. C 83 (2011) 065806-1 to 13 E.M. Wild, W.
Kutschera 14C und die Chronologie Ägyptens Spektrum der
Wissenschaft, Dezember (2011) 48-55
O. Bergmann, J. Liebl, S. Bernard, K. Alkass, M.S.Y. Yeung, P. Steier, W. Kutschera, L. Johnson,
M.
Landé n, H. Druid, K. L. Spalding, J. Frisén The Age
of Olfactory Bulb Neurons in Humans Neuron 74 (2012) 634-639 W. Kutschera, M. Bietak, E. M. Wild, C. Bronk Ramsey, M. Dee, R. Golser, Karin Kopetzky, P. Stadler, P. Steier, U. Thanheiser, F. Weninger The chronology of
Tell el-Daba: A crucial meeting point of 14C
dating, archaeology, and Egyptology in the 2nd
millennium BC Radiocarbon 54 (3-4)
(2012) in press |
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