Felix Wachsmann

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Felix Wachsmann (born December 20, 1904 in Banja Luka , Ottoman Empire , today Bosnia-Herzegovina , † May 26, 1995 ) was an electrical engineer and university professor who worked in Germany and who became known in radiation protection and radiology .

Life

Felix Wachsmann was born in Banja Luka as the son of Lieutenant Colonel Wilhelm Wachsmann and grew up in the Romanian town of Bistritz , the home of his family, where he attended a humanistic grammar school from 1911 to 1923 . From 1924 to 1929 he studied electrical engineering at the technical colleges, first in Danzig and then in Munich, and received his doctorate in Munich in 1934. During this time, he was also employed at an electricity company in Sibiu as head of the examination office. After a brief activity at the Siemens-Reiniger-Werke in Bucharest , he moved to the Werner von Siemens Research Institute for X-ray Research at the Robert Koch Hospital in Berlin as a medical physicist , where he worked under Henri Chaoul .

Due to the war damage in Berlin, Felix Wachsmann first went to Rudolstadt in 1943 or 1944 to the Siemens X-ray tube plant there and soon afterwards to Erlangen , where he worked in the radiological department of the university clinic and at the Siemens cleaning plant. Supported by Karl Mattes at the university and Max Anderlohr at Siemens-Reiniger, he was able to do his habilitation in physical and medical radiation science in Erlangen. At the local university he built in 1957, the Institute of Medical Radiology and led it until 1965. He joined the Society for Radiation Research in Neuherberg near Munich, where he was to succeed Rudolf Wittenzellner director of the Institute for Radiation Protection. His successor was Wolfgang Jacobi in 1972 .

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Wachsmann contributed to progress in many areas of radiology and radiation protection. He was involved in the development of new radiation methods such as close-range and motion radiation and researched the effects of electron beams. Methods of film dosimetry and thermoluminescence dosimetry , which are still standard methods in measuring personal dose, go back to him. In Erlangen he supported Konrad Gund in developing the betatron . In Erlangen and Neuherberg, he was involved in radiation protection training .

Honors

Felix Wachsmann has been honored several times for his achievements, including the Grand Cross of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany in the early 1970s. He and his wife, in turn, donated the Eugenie and Felix Wachsmann Prize, which has been awarded by the German Radiological Society since 2001.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Theodor Schmidt: Obituary for Prof. Felix Wachsmann . Journal of Medical Physics 5, p. 173, 1995.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Gunther Barth: Felix Wachsmann for his 65th birthday . Radiotherapy 138, pp. 765-766, 1969. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich, Berlin, Vienna.
  3. ↑ a b History of the ISS ( Memento of the original from October 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Website of the Institute for Radiation Protection at Helmholtz Zentrum München (accessed on October 12, 2016). @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.helmholtz-muenchen.de
  4. ^ Eugenie and Felix Wachsmann Prize . Website of the German Radiological Society (accessed October 12, 2016).
personal data
SURNAME Wachsmann, Felix
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Electrical engineer and radiation protector
DATE OF BIRTH December 20, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Banja Luka , Bosnia , Ottoman Empire
DATE OF DEATH May 26, 1995