After the departed

Horst Zodan 29.01.1937 - 10.09.2022

On 10 September, Professor Horst Zodan passed away. Horst was born in 1937 in Dresden, Germany. After the war and finishing school in the German Democratic Republic, he was sent along with other young people from Germany to study in the USSR. In 1960 he successfully graduated from the Leningrad State University and defended his doctoral dissertation at the Technical University in Dresden.

Since that time, Horst has been working at the Central Institute for Nuclear Research of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Rossendorf. Here he went through all the stages of the scientific ladder: from researcher to deputy director of the laboratory for science. His research paper was related to nuclear spectroscopy, quasi-molecular X-ray radiation during nuclear collisions, the mechanism of nuclear reactions under the action of heavy ions, the fission of heavy nuclei, the construction and development of unique experimental facilities.

He was engaged in the further research, starting to work at the Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions of JINR as a senior researcher in 1973 and later as deputy director of the laboratory. During his work at FLNR JINR, he made a great contribution to the development of the experimental base of the laboratory. Under his supervision and with his direct participation, a time-of-flight spectrometer (DEMAS) was developed. He led the construction and development of a unique multiple event spectrometer (PHOBOS).

These spectrometers were constructed with the participation and in close collaboration of scientists and specialists from the JINR Member States and other countries. Using these facilities, interesting results have been obtained that allow a new interpretation of some of the mechanisms of nuclear reactions with heavy ions. Horst made a great contribution to international cooperation, he was well known and appreciated by physicists working with us from many countries. He was a wonderful man, an excellent scientist and a faithful comrade. The memory of Professor Horst Zodan will be kept alive in our laboratory for a long time.

From the FLNR staff Yu.Ts.Oganessian, S.N.Dmitriev, S.I.Sidorchuk, A.V.Karpov, A.G.Popeko, Yu.E.Penionzhkevich, G.G.Gulbekyan, I.V.Kolesov.