Eckart Lorenz guestbook

Meetings and work together (unfortunately for a short time) with Eckart were very important and valuable for me. He was real experimentalist with very wide and very deep knoledge of physics and always nontrivial approach to any experimental task. Discussions with Eckart always initiated thinking and ideas. What is, may be, even more important that is his high human characteristics. Eventhough we met not often in the last years, I learned something new and interesting each time from Eckart. His leave is a big loss for me and thouse my colleagues at BINP who knew Eckart. I would like to express sincere condolences to his family, colleagues and friends.

I met Eckart first time during my first MAGIC collaboration meeting in Dortmund in 2007. I was very much motivated by his view on both physics and technology since then. He will be remembered as long as cosmic gamma rays exist.

The LAPP research team will miss his enthusiasm and guide. We deeply regret his lost. He was for us an extraordinary figure and a friend.
Giovanni on behalf of the CTA team in Annecy

The INAF Team joined the MAGIC collaboration when it had already started operations. We met most of our MAGIC colleagues, including Eckart, for the first time in that occasion. Immediately we were impressed by Eckart's personality and visionarity. He was one of the last outstanding physicists of the 20th century. MAGIC and all of us have lost with him a bright scientist, a great leader and a good friend.
Angelo on behalf the INAF Team in MAGIC.

We met Eckart only once when our good friends, his sister Ute and her husband Dietrich, introduced us and we spent an evening together. In conversation Eckart casually mentioned that he had worked with Werner Heisenberg and we briefly talked about physics and cosmology. Even in the short amount of time we knew Eckart we realized what a special and brilliant person he was. We truly can understand what a great loss his passing is to everyone who ever knew him.

Thank you Eckart for your patience in teaching me physics and for showing me how Physics should be done. Your wisdom, enthusiasm and friendship will be sadly missed.

I met Eckart as a student and I will always remain his student. He knew every detail about the physics of the detectors he was building. Not only the physics, also the engineering, the drawbacks, the alternative options, the history, the cost, the provider, the way to deal with the provider... He was answering questions even before you formulated questions, even before you came to the idea of asking the questions. He was the deepest experimentalist I ever met. But what really mattered was not that he knew everything. Some people know very much, but you do not want them to teach you anything. It was rather that you wanted to learn from him. I think that he was an exceptional teacher because he made you feel hungry for learning more.

Eckart, I will keep discussing with you in my mind...

Thank you Eckart for all the support and advice you gave to me. I will hold you in high esteem.

I met Eckart at reviews of the Cherenkov Telescope Array large telescope. He was always charming as well as exceptionally knowledgable and very much the visionary physicist. I will miss him immensely.

Eckart was one of my thesis supervisors. He was in my view the most brilliant physicist that I knew personally. He was constantly sparkling with new ideas and concepts that he wanted to test all. Every moment he came with new solutions, new materials, new ideas to improve things. In most cases, his opinions and views proofed to be correct later on, even if sometimes heavily disputed in the beginning. He was a Thomas-Edison-like inventor, a deep expert in photosensors and particle physics expert, a true model for me. He always fought for his convictions to the end, no matter the resistance. As he was parachuting, equally in research, he was never afraid of any risk. Also as human, he was very generous humanist and supporting the ones that needed help. He was almost a father for me. I worked closely with him together, especially in the last years for the design of the large 23m CTA telescope, which was his baby, same like the MAGIC telescopes. I will miss him very much.