Carl Helmut Hertz
Carl Helmut Hertz (in literature often under Carl Hellmuth Hertz ; born October 15, 1920 in Berlin , † April 29, 1990 in Lund ) was the son of Gustav Hertz and a pioneer in the field of sonography .
Life
During the Second World War he served as a soldier in the Wehrmacht . He fell into American captivity and was brought to the United States. A friend of his father's, who was a Nobel Prize winner , arranged for Hertz to be released and got him a job at Lund University in Sweden . He was allowed to leave the USA, but not return to Germany.
Hertz became a PhD student in the Department of Nuclear Physics at Lund University. Out of interest, he undertook non-destructive material testing using ultrasound , in which one can detect hidden material changes (cavities, cracks, etc.) in metallic bodies. At lunch he talked to Inge Edler , the head of cardiology at Lund University Hospital. With a Siemens ultrasonic device from Tekniska Rontgencentralen at the shipyard in Malmö, which was used to check the weld seams, he made his first experiments on his own heart. Soon afterwards they received their own device from Siemens in Erlangen in 1953, thanks to the contacts of his father Gustav Hertz, who headed the Siemens research laboratories before the Second World War. In 1955 he received his doctorate in Lund on the subject of the investigation of special forms of corona discharge on tips and wires . Together with Edler he developed sonography (at the same time there were developments in this area in other medical disciplines) and was the first professor in this area at Lund University. He founded the Department of Electrical Measurement Methods at Lund University.
To print out the results of sonography, he developed an early form of the inkjet printer in the 1960s . In 1963 he received the Westrupska Prize for his work on the biophysiology of plants.
In 1977 he received the Albert Lasker Prize for clinical-medical research .
literature
- Bernhard Koerner: German Gender Book, Volume 16, CA Starke, 2003
Web links
- Literature by and about Carl Helmut Hertz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Lund University website on pioneering work by Hertz, Lund and others in sonography
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hertz, Carl Helmut |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Swedish pioneer in the field of sonography |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 15, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 29, 1990 |
| Place of death | Lund |