Walter Oelert

Walter Oelert (14 July 1942 – 25 November 2024) was a professor at the Juelich Research Center in Germany.^[1]

Walter Oelert
Born	14 July 1942 (1942-07-14)
Died	25 November 2024(2024-11-25) (aged 82)
Nationality	German
Known for	Producing the first antihydrogen atoms
Scientific career
Fields	Physics
Institutions	Research Center Juelich

Research

In 1995 under the leadership of Professor Walter Oelert, the international group of physicists in the CERN laboratory managed to show that they had obtained experimentally nine atoms of antihydrogen in a particle accelerator.^[2] Later research allowed the CERN scientists to collect anti-protons among low-energy positrons until they combine into anti-atoms and store them at very low temperatures.^[3][4]