Dieter Meschede (born 17 April 1954) is a German physicist and lightweight rower.
Meschede was born in 1954 in Lathen in the Emsland district.
Meschede won a gold medal at the 1976 World Rowing Championships in Villach with the lightweight men's eight.
Meschede studied physics and in 1989, he was the inaugural recipient of the , awarded to young promising scientists. In 2007, he was awarded the . He teaches quantum technology at the University of Bonn. He was the president of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft and held this position from 2018 for a two-year period until 2020.
Since the 21st edition (published in 2002), Meschede has been the editor of the German physics textbook .
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