Friedrich Pockels
Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels (born June 18, 1865 in Vicenza , † August 29, 1913 in Heidelberg ) was a German physicist and brother of Agnes Pockels .
Life
Friedrich Pockels received his school education in Braunschweig, where he also studied physics at the TH Braunschweig from 1883 . He continued his studies first at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and from 1883 at the University of Göttingen . There he received his doctorate in 1888, in 1889 he passed the exams for teaching at secondary schools and in the same year became an assistant at the Physics and Mineralogical Institute of the University of Göttingen. In 1892 Pockels completed his habilitation as a private lecturer in physics.
In 1896 he became an associate professor for physics at the TH Dresden and worked from 1900 to 1913 as an associate professor for theoretical physics at the University of Heidelberg . From 1908 he was editor of the supplements to the annals of physics and chemistry .
Its name is associated with the Pockels effect , which is used in the Pockels cell .
Fonts
- Friedrich Pockels, On the influence of elastic deformations, especially one-sided pressure, on the optical behavior of crystalline bodies , dissertation, Göttingen, 1889. Zugl .: Annalen der Physik. Volume 273, No. 5, 1889, pp. 144-172, doi: 10.1002 / andp.18892730509 .
- Friedrich Pockels, On the Influence of the Electrostatic Field on the Optical Behavior of Piezoelectric Crystals , Göttingen, 1894. Reprint: VDM-Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken 2008, ISBN 978-3-8364-4082-0 ( digitized version ).
- Friedrich Pockels, Textbook of Crystal Optics , Teubner, Leipzig, 1906 ( digitized ). Reprint: VDM-Verlag Dr. Müller, Saarbrücken 2008, ISBN 978-3-8364-4063-9 .
literature
- Dorit Petschel : 175 years of TU Dresden. Volume 3: The professors of the TU Dresden 1828–2003. Edited on behalf of the Society of Friends and Supporters of the TU Dresden e. V. von Reiner Pommerin , Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2003, ISBN 3-412-02503-8 , p. 725.
- Gabriele Beisswanger: Pockels, Agnes. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 555 ( digitized version ). (Secondary entry)
Web links
- Literature by and about Friedrich Pockels in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ W. Voigt: Obituary for Prof. Dr. Friedrich Pockels in: Beibl. to Ann. d. Phys. 37, No. 19, I-IV (1913).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pockels, Friedrich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Pockels, Friedrich Carl Alwin (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist and brother of Agnes Pockels |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 18, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vicenza |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 29, 1913 |
| Place of death | Heidelberg |