Ernst-Eckhard Koch

Ernst Eckart Koch

Ernst-Eckhard Koch (born May 26, 1943 in Pressburg , Slovak State ; † September 7, 1988 in Berlin ) was a German physicist who had dedicated himself to the application and further development of synchrotron radiation .

Life

After graduating from high school in Gießen, he studied physics at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich from 1962 . He became active in the Corps Makaria Munich and distinguished himself twice as a senior . As a student assistant with Armin Hermann , he wrote the first of 200 publications . He wrote his diploma thesis with Walter Rollwagen . It shows the guideline for all of his publications: the elucidation of the electronic structure of organic molecules. Supervised by Andreas Otto and in great independence, he worked on his doctoral thesis in the then still young synchrotron radiation laboratory at the German Electron Synchrotron (DESY). In 1972 he was supported by the University of Hamburg with distinction for Dr. rer. nat. PhD. Koch was of paramount importance for the BESSY project in Berlin and the HASYLAB at DESY in Hamburg. In 1978 he qualified as a professor for experimental physics at the University of Hamburg . From 1979 to 1984 he was deputy head of HASYLAB. In 1984 he was appointed full professor by the University of Hamburg . From 1985 he headed a research group on molecular crystals at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society . In 1987, the Free University of Berlin appointed him honorary professor for experimental physics. The following year he died at the age of only 45. The Helmholtz Center Berlin for Materials and Energy awards the Ernst Eckhard Koch Prize for excellent dissertations at BESSY or HASYLAB .

Works

• with M. Skibowski: Optical absorption of gaseous methane, ethane, propane and butane and reflection of solid methande and ethane in the vacuum ultraviolet . DESY, Hamburg 1971.
• Photoemission from solid neon . DESY, Hamburg 1974.
• Non-isothermal reaction analysis . Academic Press, London New York San Francisco 1977.
• with Volker Saile: Synchrotron Radiation . Vieweg + Teubner 1988. ISBN 978-3-519-03034-8 .
• Handbook of Synchrotron Radiation . Amsterdam 1983.
• with Tai-Chang Chiang and Albrecht Goldmann: Electronic structure of solids. Photoemission spectra and related data . Springer, Berlin 1989.

Editorial Boards

• Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research
• Chemical Physics Letters
• Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena

literature

• Alexander M. Bradshaw , Christian Kunz: In memory of Ernst-Eckart Koch . Physikalische Blätter 45 (1989), p. 30.
• AM Bradshaw, C. Kunz: Obituary - Ernst Eckhard Koch: A leading figure in SR research . Synchrotron Radiation News 2 (1989), pp. 27-33.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Ernst-Eckhard Koch in the Hamburg professors' catalog (accessed on October 1, 2019) 
2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 88/900
3. ^ The Conservator's Office and the Mathematical-Physical Collection of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . Publications of the research institute of the Deutsches Museum for the history of natural sciences and technology, series A. Small messages. No. 30. (1967)
4. ↑ Diploma thesis: Electron energy loss measurements on aromatic hydrocarbons (1967)
5. ↑ Dissertation: Optical properties of vaporous and solid aromatic hydrocarbons in vacuum ultraviolet .
6. ↑ AM Bradshaw, C. Kunz: Obituary: Ernst Eckhard Koch: A leading figure in SR research. In: Synchrotron Radiation News. 2, 1989, p. 27, doi : 10.1080 / 08940888908261194 .
7. ↑ Habilitation thesis: Investigation of highly excited electronic states of molecules and molecular crystals .
8. ↑ HZB