As foundation professor of theoretical physics at the University of New South Wales from 1975 and emeritus from 1992 he established the Department of Theoretical Physics, where a number of students received the university medal, with a record level of publications and where he supervised most of his 25 PhD students. Guest and adjunct professorships include ones at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the universities of Rochester, Bern, Iowa, Giessen, Tokyo, Regensburg, Osaka, Western Sydney and the Weizmann Institute. For seven years he was active in industrial research at Zeiss, IBM, Westinghouse and Siemens. He also was involved with research for 12 years at the Max-Planck-Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching near Munich, Germany and for one year as attache remun. at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. He consulted to the laser movie "Der Verräter" in the TV series "Das Blaue Palais". His taped lecture course at CERN about laser acceleration of particles contributed to Gerard Mourou's PeV particle acceleration. His discoveries include the volume mechanism for photo-electric emission, sub-threshold defect generation by electron beams for producing semiconductor junctions with application in solar cells. Prof. Hora's first publication about growth of diamond crystals by physical vapour deposition became an IBM patent in 1964. His first general formula for nuclear energy gain at laser compression and thermal ignition of fusion led to his subsequent discovery of volume ignition. Against established knowledge, he discovered electron acceleration in vacuum by lasers based on nonlinearity. His derivation of the nonlinear forces of laser-plasma interaction including dielectric effects in the Maxwellian stress tensor led to the prediction of ultrahigh acceleration of plasma blocks being confirmed experimentally by Sauerbrey with application to a new laser fusion energy scheme as block ignition of uncompressed fuel resulting in a possible nuclear energy production with less radioactivity than burning coal. He discovered the general mechanism of ponderomotive and relativistic self-focusing. His theory for crossing electron and laser beams within media led to the discovery of the correspondence principle of electromagnetic interaction and following Nathan Rosen to nonlocality and quantum entangling. Based on the importance of including usually neglected very tiny quantities as the longitudinal field components of laser beams led to the formulation of the nonlinearity principle showing how nonlinear physics is changing from wrong linear physics into correct understanding. Hora initiated advanced schemes of laser driven fusion energy and became Director of the foundation of SAFE with the President Luella LaMeer Slaner from the traditional billionaires North of Manhattan and George H. Miley as Executive Director, to push through a law for spending $20 Billions for nuclear fusion research finally signed by President Jimmy Carter in 1980. This led finally to the scheme of laser pulses of 30 kilojoule energy to produce gigajoule energy from the clean reaction of uncompressed proton-boron fuel resulting in less radioactivity than burning coal. By 2017 he and associated startup HB11 had committed to hydrogen-boron fusion and in February 2020 announced patents on the technique using a petawatt laser
Family and personal life
Heinrich Hora and his late wife Rosemarie Hora † 2007, née Weiler, have six children and sixteen grandchildren.
Degrees and awards
D.Sc., Dr.rer.nat., Dipl.Physiker, FAIP, FInstP, MRSN Ritter-von-Gerstner Medal Edward-Teller Medal Dirac Medal Ernst-Mach Medal
Book Author and Editor
Founder and Editor-in-Chief of "Laser and Particle Beams", Cambridge University Press. Co-editor of P.A.M. Dirac "Direction of Physics", Wiley, New York 1978. Co-editor of "Edward Teller Lectures", Imperial College London 2005. Founder and co-editor of Conference Series "Laser Interaction and Related Plasma Phenomena", Plenum Press New York, 12 volumes 1971–1992. Book Author H. Hora, LASER PLASMAS AND NUCLEAR ENERGY Plenum, New York, 1975, 464 pages.. H. Hora, NONLINEAR PLASMA DYNAMICS Springer, Heidelberg 1979, 250 pages. H. Hora, PHYSICS OF LASER DRIVEN PLASMAS Wiley, New York 1981, 334 pages. S. Eliezer, A.K. Ghatak, and H. Hora INTRODUCTION TO THE EQUATIONS OF STATE Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 1986, 378 pages.. H. Hora, PLASMAS AT HIGH TEMPERATURE AND DENSITY, Springer, Heidelberg 1991, 456 pages., 2nd edition paperback, S. Roderer, Regensburg 2000, H. Hora, ELEKTRODYNAMIK, S.Roderer, Regensburg, 1994, 192 pages,. H. Hora, NONLINEAR FORCE AND PONDEROMOTION, ILE Osaka 1996, 208 pages. H.Hora, INNOVATION, TECHNOLOGIE & ÖKONOMIE, S.Roderer,Regensburg 1998, 248p. H.Hora, LASER PLASMA PHYSICS – FORCES AND THE NONLINEARITY PRINCIPLE, SPIE PRESS 2000, Bellingham, WA, 232p. H.Hora, LASER PLASMA PHYSICS – FORCES AND THE NONLINEARITY PRINCIPLE, SPIE PRESS 2016, Bellingham, WA, 350p. S. Eliezer, A.K. Ghatak, and H. Hora, FUNDAMENTALS OF EQUATIONS OF STATE, World Scientific Publishing, Singapore 2002, 385p. Heinrich Hora KEINE KLIMAKATSTROPHE – es ist viel schlimmer 202 pages, Sydney 2007, same: KLIMAKATASTROPHE ÜBERWINDEN,. Roderer-Verlag, Regensburg 2007, 202 pages Heinrich Hora KLIMAPROBLEME – LÖSUNGSWEGE, S. Roderer-Verlag, Regensburg 2010, 256 pages,
