23 Facts About Friedwardt Winterberg

Friedwardt Winterberg was born on June 12,1929 and is a German-American theoretical physicist and was a research professor at the University of Nevada, Reno.

Friedwardt Winterberg is known for his research in areas spanning general relativity, Planck scale physics, nuclear fusion, and plasmas.

Friedwardt Winterberg is an honorary member of the German Aerospace Society Lilienthal-Oberth.

In 1959, Winterberg was brought to the United States as part of Operation Paperclip.

Friedwardt Winterberg is known for his work in the fields of nuclear fusion and plasma physics, and Edward Teller has been quoted as saying that he had "perhaps not received the attention he deserves" for his work on fusion.

Friedwardt Winterberg is an elected member of the Paris-based International Academy of Astronautics, in which he sat on the Committee of Interstellar Space Exploration.

Friedwardt Winterberg has published numerous articles in the area of inertial confinement fusion.

In particular, Friedwardt Winterberg is known for the idea of impact fusion and the concept of the magnetically insulated diode for the generation of multi-megampere megavolt ion beams for the purpose of heating plasmas to thermonuclear fusion temperatures.

Friedwardt Winterberg developed ideas for mining increasingly rare industrially crucial elements on planetary bodies such as the moon using fusion detonation devices.

Friedwardt Winterberg became involved with the idea of using beam weapons in outer space in the late 1970s while working at the Desert Research Institute.

The FEF published a book of Friedwardt Winterberg describing the design of the hydrogen bomb, with the hope of getting research in inertial confinement fusion declassified.

Friedwardt Winterberg contributed articles and interviews to the FEF magazine, Fusion, and its successor magazine, 21st Century Science and Technology.

Friedwardt Winterberg participated in a 1985 conference jointly sponsored by the FEF and the Schiller Institute, speaking on the topic of X-ray lasers, the Strategic Defense Initiative and interstellar travel.

The conference attracted a number of scientists interested in promoting fusion scientific research; Friedwardt Winterberg was never a member of any of LaRouche's political organisations.

On November 12,2007, Friedwardt Winterberg addressed the American Physical Society Plasma Physics Convention in Orlando, Florida, encouraging efforts to achieve economically feasible fusion energy, and presenting his ideas for what direction the efforts should take.

In 1983, Friedwardt Winterberg became involved in disputes concerning the engineer Arthur Rudolph, who had been brought to the United States after World War II as part of Operation Paperclip to work on the US rocketry program.

Friedwardt Winterberg lobbied in favour of Rudolph, giving interviews to magazines, launching his own separate investigation, and speaking in Rudolph's defense at a conference hosted by Lyndon LaRouche.

Friedwardt Winterberg was involved in a dispute relating to the history of general relativity in a controversy over the publication of the general relativity field equations.

Friedwardt Winterberg's article argued that despite the missing part of the proofs, that the correct crucial Field Equation is still imbedded on other pages of the proofs, in various forms, including Hilbert's variational principle with correct Lagrangian from which the Field Equation is immediately derived.

Friedwardt Winterberg presented his findings at the American Physical Society meeting in Tampa, Florida in April 2005.

The reply accused Friedwardt Winterberg of misrepresenting the reason why Science would not publish his paper, and misrepresenting that the paper published in Zeitschrift fur Naturforschung was the same paper he had submitted to Science, and had in fact been "substantially altered" after Friedwardt Winterberg had received their comments on an earlier draft.

Later, the original reply to Friedwardt Winterberg was removed from their website and replaced with a much shorter statement saying only that Friedwardt Winterberg's conclusions were incorrect, specifically that he had focused on the missing page fragment, "a fact without any bearing on the matter at hand", while failing "to address the substantive difference between the theory expounded in the proofs" of Hilbert.

The statement further said that Friedwardt Winterberg had apparently indicated that he was "personally offended" by the original response, the "Max Planck Institute for the History of Science has decided to replace the original, more detailed response to his paper with this abbreviated version".