Peter Hänggi

Peter Hänggi (born November 29, 1950) is a theoretical physicist from Switzerland. He is best known for his original works on Brownian motion and the Brownian motor concept, stochastic resonance and dissipative systems (classical and quantum mechanical). Other topics include, driven quantum tunneling, such as the discovery of coherent destruction of tunneling (CDT), phononics, relativistic statistical mechanics and the foundations of classical and quantum thermodynamics.

Peter Hänggi
Born (1950-11-29) November 29, 1950
NationalitySwiss
Alma materUniversity of Basel, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Known forStochastic resonance
Hänggi's law
Scientific career
FieldsPhysics
Statistical physics
Dissipative systems
InstitutionsUniversity of Augsburg

Notable review papers
  • Reaction-rate theory: fifty years after Kramers[1]
  • Stochastic resonance[2]

Hänggi's Law

The following statement is attributed as Hänggi's Law:

The more trivial your research, the more people will read it and agree.

It is labeled as a kind of Murphy's law and it was first seen in Arthur Bloch's work.[3] However, the attribute's relation to Professor Hänggi's research is not clear.

Corollaries:

  • The more vital your research, the fewer people will understand it.
  • You write a nontrivial paper and you likely will be the only one who will remember it.

References
  1. Hänggi, Peter; Talkner, Peter; Borkovec, Michal (1990-04-01). "Reaction-rate theory: fifty years after Kramers". Reviews of Modern Physics. 62 (2): 251–341. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.62.251.
  2. Gammaitoni, Luca; Hänggi, Peter; Jung, Peter; Marchesoni, Fabio (1998-01-01). "Stochastic resonance". Reviews of Modern Physics. 70 (1): 223–287. doi:10.1103/RevModPhys.70.223.
  3. Bloch, Arthur (2003). Murphy's Law. Penguin. ISBN 9780399529306.
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