Jens Scheer

Jens Scheer, was a physicist, professor of nuclear physics at the University of Bremen and one of Germany's best-known anti-nuclear activists.
Scheer was a member of the Communist Party of Germany. For reason of his KPD-membership and his political activities, Scheer was threatened in 1975 with the loss of his academic position at the University of Bremen and an interdiction of enacting his profession, as membership in the KPD and his position as university professor were considered incompatible. The legal proceedings lasted for about five years, after which the final verdict was the payment of a fine.
One of Scheer's main research interests was low-level radiation and its effects on human beings. He claimed that radiation exposure at critical moments in life weakens the immune system, thus leading to a higher susceptibility to infectious diseases. After the Chernobyl disaster of 1986, he invested considerable efforts in attempting to determine the extent of damage caused in the longer term by this disaster.
In an article, Scheer claimed that low-level radiation had caused the death of millions, when all direct and indirect effects of radiation are taken together. His view was criticized as unfounded.
Scheer also published on several stochastic models proposed in the context of quantum theory, in particular those advanced by Jean-Pierre Vigier and by J.C. Aron, and he criticized a prevalence of positivism in quantum physics.
In 1994, Scheer died of heart failure.

Publications

;Articles relating to low-level radiation and Chernobyl:

Jens Scheer:, British Medical Journal, Letter, March 1992,
Jens Scheer:, Scientific Correspondence, Nature 326, 449, April 1987,

;Articles and book chapters on quantum physics:

Jens Scheer:, Foundations of Physics Letters, vol. 3, no. 6, pp. 577–580, 1990,
Jens Scheer, Klaus Götsch, Thomas Koch, Günter Lüning, Michael Schmidt, Heiko Ziggel:, Foundations of Physics Letters, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 71–79, 1989,
Jens Scheer, Michael Schmidt: Remarks on EPR-related concepts from a realistic point of view, In Alwyn Van der Merwe, Franco Selleri, G. Tarozzi : Microphysical Reality and Quantum Formalism: Proceedings of the Conference, 1988, Kluwer Academic Publishers,, –266

;Other:

Jens Scheer: Gegen die Kopenhagener Deutung der Quantentheorie, interview with Jens Scheer by Klaus v. Bloh, held in June/July 1994,, no. 20
Jens Scheer: Lebendige Debatte über tote Katze,, no. 20
Jens Scheer: Radioaktive Niedrigstrahlung,, no. 16
Jens Scheer: Kommunismus – Naturalismus – Humanismus,, no. 14
Jens Scheer: Niels Bohr vom Kopf auf die Füße stellen,, no. 12
Jens Scheer: Eine tote Katze in Schrödingers Kasten,, no. 12