Christian Gerthsen

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Memorial stone , Invalidenstrasse 110, in Berlin-Mitte

Christian Gerthsen (born November 21, 1894 in Hörup on Alsen , German Empire , † December 8, 1956 in Karlsruhe ) was a German physicist . He is best known as the author of the textbook Gerthsen Physik .

Life

From 1913 to 1914 Gerthsen studied at the University of Heidelberg and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . During the First World War he did military service, from 1919 to 1920 he continued his studies at the University of Göttingen and from 1920 at the University of Kiel . He did his doctorate there in 1922 under Walther Kossel with a thesis on the electrostatic interpretation of the properties of solutions and remained his assistant until 1930. In 1929 the habilitation followed with a thesis on testing the field profile on the K-shell using H-rays . He then went to the University of Tübingen as a private lecturer .

In 1932 he went to the University of Giessen , where he was appointed full professor of experimental physics . In 1939 he moved to the University of Berlin , where he became director of the I. Physics Institute. In addition, Gerthsen was head of the four-year plan institute No. 32 for atomic research in Berlin KW-7, Reichstagufer 7-8.

His basic course book, which is now considered the standard textbook, was created from the transcripts of his lectures in 1946/47 in Berlin and appeared for the first time in 1948. (It has since been updated by other authors in more than 20 editions.) In the same year Gerthsen went to the TH Karlsruhe , where he Headed the reconstruction of the physics department and the physics institute after the Second World War . In the 1950s he suggested building a modern physics classroom. He remained director of the institute until his death in 1956. Since 1951 he was a full member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

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In Giessen, Gerthsen studied atomic collision processes . Among other things, he looked at the excitation of nuclear reactions and the emission of X-rays . He came up with the idea of ​​the tandem accelerator .

Later he carried out scattering experiments with charged particles. He was one of the first to use the Geiger-Müller counter tube to evaluate them . He was able to experimentally prove the exchange effect predicted by quantum mechanics .

Fonts

  • with Karl Bechert Atomphysik , Vol. 1, General Basics , De Gruyter, 1944, 1955, 1959, Vol. 2, De Gruyter 1944, 1959, 1963, Vol. 3 Theory of the Atomic Structure , De Gruyter 1954, 1963, Vol. 4, with Arnold Flammersfeld Theory of Atomic Structure, Part 2 , De Gruyter 1954, 1963, 1984
  • Physics , Volk u. Wissen, 1948, 1951, Springer, 1956, 1958, further editions with Hans Otto Kneser , Springer, from 1960, with Kneser and Helmut Vogel , 17th edition, 1993, 2001, as well as in the latest editions:
  • with Dieter Meschede Gerthsen Physik . With 1074 problems and complete solutions on CD-ROM , Springer, 2003, 2005, 23rd edition 2007 (1157 pages)
  • with Max Pollermann Introduction to the physical internship for studying physics as a minor subject , Springer, 1953
  • with Max Pollermann Introduction to the physical internship , Springer, 1960, 1964, 1967
  • with Max Pollermann Introduction to the physical internship. For medical professionals and the beginner internship , Springer-Verlag, 1982
  • Christian Gerthsen and Helmut Vogel Gerthsen Physics (Springer-Verlag, 1995, 1997, 2001)

literature

Web links

Commons : Christian Gerthsen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Archives for the History of Quantum Physics: Author Catalog - American Philosophical Society
  2. I. Physics Institute of JLU Giessen: "History of the Chair of Physics"
  3. List of VJPI  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.unterirdisch-forum.de  
  4. ^ Foreword by Christian Gerthsen: "Physics". Volk und Wissen Verlags GmbH, Berlin / Leipzig 1948
  5. ^ Universität Karlsruhe (TH): “On the 50th anniversary of the death of Professor Dr. Christian Gerthsen ”, press release 135 of December 4, 2006 / le
  6. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Christian Gerthsen. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed on July 6, 2016 .