Erich Fischer (physicist)

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Erich Horst Fischer (born July 3, 1910 in Allenstein , East Prussia , † October 10, 1969 in Hamburg ) was a German experimental physicist who was involved in the construction of nuclear reactors .

Fischer studied physics from 1929 to 1935 at the University of Bonn , the University of Munich and the Friedrich Wilhelms University in Berlin . He received his doctorate in 1935 in Berlin under Walther Nernst and A. Deubner. From 1935 to 1936 he was Walter Friedrich's teaching assistant there . In 1937 he moved to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics , where he became research assistant to Peter Debye and Werner Heisenberg . In 1939 he completed his habilitation, and in 1942 he became a private lecturer at the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin.

As a member of the uranium project (1939–1945) he helped to determine the rate of neutron multiplication in heterogeneous uranium - moderator combinations. As part of this activity, he published five articles in the nuclear physics research reports classified as top secret . In 1944 he moved in the course of the outsourcing of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics to Hechingen in the Hohenzollern region . There he was particularly involved in the construction of the Haigerloch research reactor .

After the end of the war, he helped rebuild the Hechingen section of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics. In 1948 he became a lecturer in experimental physics at the University of Tübingen , and two years later he also became an associate professor there. In 1951 he was appointed full professor at Ankara University. From 1956 he was employed at the newly founded GKSS research center in Geesthacht , where he carried out material research for the construction of nuclear reactors.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau , Volume 23, 1970.
  2. ^ Hansa: Schiffahrt, Schiffbau, Hafen , Volume 106, No. 21, November 1st, Issue 1969, p. 1926.
  3. ↑ a b c Klaus Hentschel, Ann. M. Hentschel: Physics and national socialism: an anthology of primary sources . Birkhäuser, 1996, ISBN 3-7643-5312-0 , p. XXV, Appendix F (English).
  4. ↑ Mark Walker : German National Socialism and the Quest for Nuclear Power 1939-1949 . Cambridge, 1993, ISBN 0-521-43804-7 , pp. 262,268-274 .
  5. ↑ F. Bopp, E. Fischer, W. Heisenberg, K. Wirtz, W. Bothe, P. Jensen and O. Ritter. Report on the B 8 experiment in Haigerloch , original report that has been lost.
personal data
SURNAME Fischer, Erich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fischer, Erich Horst (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 3, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Allenstein , East Prussia
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1969
Place of death Hamburg