Ernst Miescher

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Ernst Friedrich Miescher (1905–1990) physicist. Family grave in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery, Basel. In 1941 he was appointed associate professor for experimental physics, especially spectroscopy, at the University of Basel.
Family grave in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery

Ernst Miescher (born October 6, 1905 in Basel ; † September 27, 1990 there ) was a Swiss physicist .

Miescher was born as the son of the lawyer Ernst Miescher and Julie Helene Miescher. Vegetable born. He studied physics in Basel and Munich. In 1930 he received his doctorate and in 1935 his habilitation at the University of Basel . From 1929 to 1942 Miescher was an assistant at the physical institute of the University of Basel. In 1941 he was appointed associate professor for experimental physics , especially spectroscopy , at the University of Basel. From 1945 to 1972 Miescher was head of the department for spectral physics. Ernst Miescher was the local organizer of the first official conference of the EUCMOS series in 1951 in Basel.

His contributions to molecular spectroscopy , mainly diatomic molecules , have led to the experimental evidence of the avoided crossing of electronic potential curves.

He found his final resting place in the Wolfgottesacker cemetery .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Susanne Csobádi: Ernst Miescher. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
  2. ^ Gerhard Herzberg: To Ernst Miescher, on his eightieth birthday. In: Helvetica Physica Acta. Vol. 58, 1985, pp. 951-955.
  3. ↑ Ernst Miescher, Gerhard Herzberg, Albin Lagerqvist: Fine structure analysis and mutual perturbation of the δ and ß bands of the NO molecule. In: Canadian Journal of Physics. Vol. 34, No. 6, 1956, pp. 622-624.
personal data
SURNAME Miescher, Ernst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss physicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 6, 1905
PLACE OF BIRTH Basel
DATE OF DEATH September 27, 1990
Place of death Basel