Frank Ludwig Weichman
Frank Ludwig Weichman (born September 23, 1930 in Liegnitz as Frank Ludwig Aron ; died November 10, 2016 in Edmonton ) was a German-Canadian physicist in the field of condensed matter .
Life
Weichman was born to the Jewish couple Bernhard and Margot Aron-Gutentag, née Weichmann. He spent his childhood in Berlin and after his parents' emigration in 1933 or 1934 in Amsterdam . His mother was arrested at the end of 1942 after fleeing from the National Socialists in the occupied Netherlands, deported and murdered in the Auschwitz concentration camp . Weichman survived because a shoemaker couple in Amsterdam and then an elderly couple in Baarn hid him. The first time after the end of the Second World War he spent in the Netherlands in a home for orphaned children, the Berg-Stichting-Heim in Laren . In 1946 his uncle Herbert Weichmann and his wife Elsbeth carried out his adoption and brought him to New York . He began studying physics at Brooklyn College in 1948 .
In March 1949, Frank Ludwig Weichmann returned to Germany with his adoptive mother, where Herbert Weichmann had accepted the office of President of the Hamburg Court of Auditors in early 1949 .
In 1950, Frank Ludwig Weichmann went back to the United States, continued his physics studies and received his doctorate at Northwestern University . In 1958 he moved to Edmonton (Canada), where he taught as professor of condensed matter at the University of Alberta . In 1960 he took on tasks in an introductory program for students and teachers initiated by Professors Lynn Trainor and Joe Lipson . He later worked in the field of teaching physics in secondary schools and, together with Brian Martin of the King's Center for Visualization in Science at King's University College, developed online teaching materials for physics teaching in schools and universities. After his retirement in the mid-1990s, he was a founding member of the non-profit organization iHuman Youth Society .
He published his memoirs in 2011.
Awards
- Seniors Association of Greater Edmonton Sage Award (2012)
Fonts
- Real-life problems for introductory general physics , University of Alberta, Department of Physics
- Ways of survival: memories. Hamburg: Herbert and Elsbeth Weichmann Foundation, 2011
literature
- Werner Röder; Herbert A. Strauss (Ed.): International Biographical Dictionary of Central European Emigrés 1933-1945 . Volume 2.2. Munich: Saur, 1983 ISBN 3-598-10089-2 , p. 1213
Web links
- Suzette Chan: A Sage Award for a professor emeritus , University of Alberta, Faculty of Science, May 14, 2012
- Hans-Juergen Fink: Return of a Survivor , In: Hamburger Abendblatt , July 7, 2011
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weichman, Frank Ludwig |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Weichman, Frank; Aron, Frank Ludwig (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Canadian physicist in the field of condensed matter |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 23, 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Liegnitz |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 10, 2016 |
| Place of death | Edmonton |