Pedro Waloschek

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Pedro Waloschek (* 1929 in Dresden ; † March 8, 2012 in Hamburg ) was a German-Austrian experimental particle physicist .

Waloschek, the son of the architect Hans Waloschek (1899–1985), had lived in Argentina since 1937, as his father had to flee from the Hitler regime via the stopover in Vienna at the end of 1933. It was only there that he took the first name Pedro, the Spanish version of his original first name Peter. Until his doctorate in Buenos Aires in 1954, he studied physics. In 1955/56 he was at the University of Göttingen and in 1957 in Bern . In the 1950s he was engaged in the study of cosmic rays . From 1957 he was in Bologna , where he completed his habilitation and where he led a bubble chamber group. He was involved in one of the early parity violation experiments. Then he was in Bari , where he worked on an apparatus for analyzing photos of the bladder chambers. From 1965 to 1968 he was at CERN , where he worked on the wire chambers of Georges Charpak . In 1968 he went to DESY in Hamburg as a Senior Scientist , where he used the then new electronic wire chamber technology. He was involved in the construction of the Pluto detector at the Doris storage ring. From 1988 he was a member of the H1 collaboration at HERA . In 1994 he retired there.

In the 1980s he was head of public relations at DESY and wrote several popular science books on elementary particle physics. He also wrote the biography of the Norwegian particle accelerator pioneer Rolf Wideröe , who also worked in Hamburg during the Second World War.

In 2001 and 2007 he published materials for the construction of the Volkshaus in Riesa as editor . The work of his father as an architect on this building is explained and illustrated under the title Das Volkshaus Riesa and his architect (2001) and The clever tower of Riesa (2007).

Fonts

  • Dictionary Physik , dtv 1998, ISBN 3-423-32512-7 , also as CD-ROM from Directmedia Publishing 2006, ISBN 978-3-89853-541-0
  • with Rolf Wideröe When the particles learned to walk. The life and work of the grandfather of the modern particle accelerator . Vieweg, 1993 ( archive.org [PDF]). (English: The infancy of particle accelerators - life and work of Rolf Wideröe ), new Rolf Wideröe 1902–1996 , Hamburg 2007
  • Death rays as a lifesaver. Fact reports from the Third Reich , Norderstedt 2004 (English as Death-Rays as Life-Savers in the Third Reich )
  • The Volkshaus Riesa and its architect . Atelier Opal, Hamburg, 2001, ISBN 3-8311-1810-8 ( excerpts in the Google book search). (with a biography of his father)
  • Visit to the particle zoo. From crystal to quark , Rowohlt 1996
  • Journey into the heart of matter: with HERA to the limits of knowledge , DVA 1991
  • Modern particle physics - simply presented , Aulis Verlag, 3rd edition 1990
  • The multi-person. Research teams on the trail of quarks and leptons , Econ 1986
  • with Olivia Meyer: The Key to Physics , 1990
  • with Oskar Höfling : The world of the smallest particles. Advance on the structure of matter , rororo 1984, 2nd edition 1988

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Petra Folkerts, Erich Lohrmann: Pedro Waloschek (1929–2012) . In: DESY inFORM . No. 04 , April 2012, p. 2 ( desy.de [PDF]).
  2. ↑ Pedro Waloschek deceased , In: Riesaer. , Official Gazette for Riesa, edition 11/2012 of March 16, 2012 (PDF; 7.7 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Waloschek, Pedro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Waloschek, Peter (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH March 8, 2012
Place of death Hamburg