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Dieter Meschede (born 17 April 1954) is a German physicist and lightweight rower.
Meschede was born in 1954 in Lathen in the Emsland district.[1]
Meschede won a gold medal at the 1976 World Rowing Championships in Villach with the lightweight men's eight.[2]
Meschede studied physics and in 1989, he was the inaugural recipient of the Rudolf Kaiser Prize , awarded to young promising scientists.[3] In 2007, he was awarded the Robert Wichard Pohl Prize .[3] He teaches quantum technology at the University of Bonn.[4] He is the president of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft and will hold this position from April 2018 for a two-year period.[3]
Since the 21st edition (published in 2002), Meschede has been the editor of the German physics textbook Gerthsen Physik .[5]