Hans Breuer (physicist)

Dr. Hans Adolf Breuer (22 October 1933 in Frankfurt, Germany – 19 April 2020 in Somerset West, South Africa) was a German physicist and author of 23 mainly scientific books.

After finishing school with Abitur, he studied physics in Berlin and later Frankfurt, gaining a Diplom in July 1958 (summa cum laude, thesis: A Range-Energy-Relation for Fast Electrons).

[2] In 1967, he was married to Rosemarie Berg and accepted the position of assistant professor for physics at the University of Saskatchewan, where his first son was born.

From September 1976 to December 1976, he was a visiting professor at the Max-Planck-Institute for biophysics in Frankfurt and then became scientific officer (P4) at the International Atomic Energy Agency, Vienna.

In October 1981, the family emigrated to Stellenbosch, South Africa, where he accepted the position of principal scientist at the National Accelerator Center in Faure.