Paul Heinrich Söding (born 20 February 1933 in Dresden, Germany) is a German physicist.
Paul Söding studied physics at the universities of Hamburg and Munich in Germany.
There he and his colleagues at the TASSO detector used the PETRA positron-electron accelerator to observe the first direct evidence of the gluon, the elementary particle that mediates the strong nuclear force.
[4] His efforts to get the Tetraelectronvolt Energy Superconducting Linear Accelerator (TESLA)[5] built at DESY were not successful.
After the German reunification in 1990, the former GDR institute for high energy physics at Zeuthen near Berlin was integrated into DESY.