Frederick Koch

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Frederick Koch (born June 1, 1937 ; † July 29, 2012 ) was an American physicist who was a professor at the Technical University of Munich from 1972 to 2005 .

Career

Frederick Koch studied physics and mathematics at New York University from 1954 to 1958 and received his doctorate in 1962 from the University of California, Berkeley . In 1963 he received a call to the University of Maryland , where he first taught as an assistant professor and from 1971 as a full professor .

Koch was appointed to the Technical University of Munich from the United States , where he was Professor of Experimental Physics from 1972 until his retirement in 2005 .

Frederick Koch established semiconductor physics at this university and brought it to international renown. He developed international academic relations in this field as well as contacts with the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . Here he cooperated with the Central Institute for Electron Physics in Berlin and with the successor institution Paul Drude Institute for Solid State Electronics , where he worked in particular with Marion Asche .

Koch also played a key role in founding the Walter Schottky Institute in Garching near Munich .

literature

  • Obituary for Frederick Koch . In: Technical University of Munich (ed.): TUMcampus . No. 4/12 , December 2012 ( online ).
  • Gerhard Abstreiter : Obituary for Frederick Koch . In: Physics Journal . tape 11 , no. 12 , 2012 ( online [PDF; accessed February 10, 2018]).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary notice in the Süddeutsche Zeitung
  2. ^ Abstreiter: Obituary for Frederick Koch . 2012, p. 54 .
personal data
SURNAME Cook, Frederick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1937
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 2012