Peter HänggiPeter Hänggi (born November 29, 1950 is a theoretical physicist from Switzerland. He is
best known for his original works on Brownian motion and ratchets, stochastic resonance and dissipative systems (classical and quantum) http://www.physik.uni-augsburg.de/theo1/hanggi/Bio_sketch.pdf.

Notable Review Papers

• RMP Review Reaction-rate theory: fifty years after Kramers
• RMP Review Stochastic Resonance

Hänggi's Law

The following statement attributed as Hänggi's Law http://www.physik.uni-augsburg.de/theo1/hanggi/Law.html.
The more trivial your research, the more people will read it and agree
Seemingly it is a kind of Murphy's law

Murphy's law

Murphy's law is an adage or epigram that is typically stated as: "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong". - History :The perceived perversity of the universe has long been a subject of comment, and precursors to the modern version of Murphy's law are not hard to find. Recent significant...

 and it was first seen in Arthur Bloch

Arthur Bloch

Arthur Bloch is an American writer, author of the Murphy's Law books. He has also written a self-help satire called Healing Yourself with Wishful Thinking. Since 1986 he has been the producer/director of the Thinking Allowed PBS television series.The proper title of the book is Murphy's Law, and...

's work. However
attribute's relation to Professor Haenggi's research is not clear.

Corollaries:

• The more vital your research, the fewer people will understand it.
• You write a nontrivial paper and you likely will be the only one who will remember it.

External links

• Publications

See also

• Stochastic Resonance
  Stochastic resonance
  Stochastic resonance is a phenomenon that occurs in a threshold measurement system when an appropriate measure of information transfer is maximized in the presence of a non-zero level of stochastic input noise thereby lowering the response...
  
  
• Brownian ratchet
  Brownian ratchet
  In the philosophy of thermal and statistical physics, the Brownian ratchet, or Feynman-Smoluchowski ratchet is a thought experiment about an apparent perpetual motion machine first analysed in 1912 by Polish physicist Marian Smoluchowski and popularised by American Nobel laureate physicist Richard...
  
  
• Brownian motor
  Brownian motor
  Brownian motors are nano-scale or molecular devices by which thermally activated processes are controlled and used to generate directed motion in space and to do mechanical or electrical work...