Anton Karlowitsch Walter

Anton Karlovich Walter ( Ukrainian Антон Карлович Вальтер * Dec. 24, 1905 ^{. Jul} / 6. January  1906 ^greg. In St. Petersburg ; † 13. August 1965 in Kharkiv ) was a Soviet- Ukrainian nuclear physicist and university teacher .

Life

Walter, from a noble family, began studying physics at the Petrograd Polytechnic Institute in 1922 . From 1923 he worked scientifically with IW Obreimow in the Leningrad Physics-Technical Institute (LFTI) and later in the local laboratory of NN Semjonow . In 1925 he moved to AF Joffe's laboratory , where he investigated the electrical and mechanical properties of dielectrics together with KD Sinelnikow and IW Kurtschatow .

In 1930 Walter moved to the Ukrainian Physics and Technology Institute (UFTI) in Kharkiv, which was founded in 1928 . From 1937 he headed the new chair for physics of the atomic nucleus at the University of Kharkiv . After the German-Soviet War , he taught nuclear physics at the University of Kharkiv from 1947 until his retirement . In 1951 he became a member of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic .

Walter's areas of work were the physics of dielectrics and semiconductors , high voltage technology , vacuum physics and technology, atomic nuclear physics , particle accelerator technology and high energy physics . In 1932 he split with KD Sinelnikov, AI Leschunski and DG Latyschew first in the Soviet Union the lithium - atomic nucleus by bombardment with 300-400 keV - protons . He led the development of particle accelerators for acceleration energies of 2 GeV . Together with KD Sinelnikow he developed and built the first oil diffusion pumps in the Soviet Union from 1938 to 1941 .

A street in Kharkiv was named after Walter.

Honors

• Honored Scientist of the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (1955)
• Hero of Socialist Labor (proposed for 1965 but no longer realized because of his death)
• State Prize of Ukraine for Science and Technology (1993 posthumously)

Individual evidence

1. ^ JA Chramow: Walter Anton Karlowitsch . In: AI Achijeser (Hrsg.): Physiker: Biografisches Lexikon . Nauka, Moscow 1983, p. 54 (Russian).
2. ^ Walter Anton Karlovich (1905-1965) (accessed July 23, 2016).
3. ↑ Г.А. Вальтер: Увлеченный наукой (accessed July 23, 2016).
4. ↑ Синельников, Кирилл Дмитриевич это: Толкование (accessed July 23, 2016).
5. ↑ Улица Академика Вальтера (accessed July 23, 2016).