Jan Peter Toennies

Education

Professional record

• 1957–1962 DFG Stipendium with Prof. W. Paul, Physics Institute, University of Bonn, Germany.
• 1962–1965 Scientific assistant to Prof. W. Paul, Physics Institute, University of Bonn.
• 1965–1967 Privat-Dozent, Physics Institute, University of Bonn.
• 1967–1968 Dozent, Physics Institute, University of Bonn.
• 1965–1974 Visiting Professor, Institute for Physical Chemistry, Göteborg University.
• 1969–1998 Appointment to Scientific Member of the Max-Planck-Society and Director at the Max-Planck-Institute für Strömungsforschung.
• 1971 – Associate Professor, University of Göttingen; Adjunct-Professor, University of Bonn.
• 1981 – Founding member of the World Cultural Council.
• 1998–2002 Acting Director at the Max-Planck-Institut für Strömungsforschung.
• 2002–2007 Emeritus Scientific Member of the Max-Planck-Society

Prizes and special recognition

• 1964 Physics Prize of the Academy of Sciences, Göttingen
• 1983 "Fellow" of the American Physical Society
• 1988 Alumni Citation, Brown University
• 1990 Corresponding Member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen
• 1991 Gold Heyrovsky Medal of the Czech Academy of Sciences
• 1992 Hewlett-Packard Europhysics Prize for solid state physics
• 1992 Max-Planck-Prize of the Germany Research Society and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
• 1993 Member of the Germany Academy of Natural Scientists "Leopoldina" in Halle, Germany
• 1996 Recipient of the first MOLEC Conference Award
• 1999 Honorary Fellow of the International Molecular Beams Symposium
• 2000 Honorary Doctorate in Philosophy, University of Gothenburg, Sweden
• 2002 Stern-Gerlach Gold Medal of the German Physical Society
• 2005 Kolos Medal of University of Warsaw
• 2006 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics
• 2007 Honorary Doctorate in Science, Amherst College, MA, USA

  Monographs

• E. F. Greene and J. Peter Toennies: Chemische Reaktionen in Stoßwellen, Dr. Dietrich Steinkopff Verlag, Darmstadt, 1959
• E. F. Greene and J. Peter Toennies: Chemical Reactions in Shock Waves, Edward Arnold Ltd. London, 1964
• G. Benedek and J. Peter Toennies: Atomic Scale Dynamics at Surfaces: Theory and Experimental Studies with Helium Atom Scattering, Springer, Heidelberg, 2018