Dieter Hoffmann (born 11 December 1948 in Berlin) is a German historian of science who has worked extensively on the history of modern physics.
He completed his dissertation there in 1976 on the topic "Stages in the Interaction between Science and Production: an attempt at Periodization using the Example of the History of Semiconductor Research."
[1] After the reunification, Hoffmann was a scholar at the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and worked at the Physikalisch-Technischen Bundesanstalt.
In 2020 Hoffmann was awarded the Abraham Pais Prize of the American Physical Society "for insightful, determined, often courageous biographical and institutional studies on the history of German physics and technology, from Weimar through the Nazi and East German regimes.
Between 1994 and 2002 he was a board member of the German Society for the History of Medicine, Natural Sciences and Technology.