Charles Enz
Charles Paul Enz (born January 19, 1925 in Zurich ) is a Swiss theoretical physicist.
Life
Enz studied at the ETH Zurich , where he graduated from Wolfgang Pauli in 1952 . He then worked as a scientific assistant to Georg Busch in the field of solid state physics at the ETH and received his doctorate in 1956 under Pauli ( interaction forces and renormalization in the photon pair theory ). In the summer semester of 1956 and winter semester of 1958/59 he was Pauli's assistant and represented Pauli in lectures. From 1959 to 1961 he was at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey . From 1961 he was a full professor at the University of Neuchâtel and from 1965 at the University of Geneva , where he was chairman of the physics faculty from 1977. In 1963/64 he was visiting professor at Cornell University and in 1970/71 at the IBM Laboratorium Rüschlikon .
Enz dealt, among other things, with theoretical solid state physics and the history of physics. He was co-editor of the collected works of his teacher Wolfgang Pauli and editor of his lectures. He also wrote an essay on Pauli's scientific work in The physicist's conception of Nature (edited by Jagdish Mehra , 1973) and a scientific biography of Pauli.
From 1975 to 1978 Enz was President of the Swiss Physical Society . In 1986 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society .
Fonts
- Of Matter and Spirit: Selected Essays by Charles P. Enz. World Scientific, Singapore 2009, ISBN 978-981-281-901-7 .
- No time to be brief: a scientific biography of Wolfgang Pauli. Oxford University Press, Oxford / New York 2002, ISBN 0-19-856479-1 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Charles Enz in the catalog of the German National Library
- Charles P. Enz: Description of non-conservative non-linear systems (1st part) . In: Physics in Our Time . tape 10 , no. 4 , 1979, p. 119-125 , doi : 10.1002 / piuz.19790100405 .
- Charles P. Enz, Jochen Fricke: Description of non-conservative non-linear systems (2nd part) . In: Physics in Our Time . tape 10 , no. 5 , 1979, pp. 141-144 , doi : 10.1002 / piuz.19790100504 .
- Photo on page with Pauli's assistant
Remarks
- ↑ reprinted in Of Matter and Spirit
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Enz, Charles |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Enz, Charles Paul |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 19, 1925 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich |