Friedrich Schlögl (physicist)

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Friedrich Schlögl (born April 7, 1917 in Erfurt ; † May 8, 2011 in Aachen ) was a German physicist and university professor for theoretical physics at RWTH Aachen University .

life and work

Friedrich Schlögl received his doctorate at the University of Göttingen in 1947 (topic of the dissertation : calculation of some effective cross-sections on beryllium ) and habilitation at the University of Cologne in 1953 (topic of the habilitation thesis : The local symmetry forces in the core and their derivation from the two- nucleon force ). April 1960 appointed associate professor for the structure of matter at RWTH Aachen University. On October 2, 1961, he was offered a full professorship for theoretical physics at RWTH Aachen University. In 1968 he and many other professors from RWTH Aachen University were among the signatories of the “ Marburg Manifesto ”, which formed an academic front against the emerging co-determination at universities. He was retired on August 1, 1982.

Schlögl is known for his fundamental work in the field of equilibrium and non-equilibrium thermodynamics . The model he developed to describe certain chemical reactions , the Schlögl model , aroused particular sustained interest . It is a prototypical model in the field of nonlinear dynamics .

His scientific work was honored with an honorary doctorate from the University of Düsseldorf in 1987 and led to a number of visiting professorships, including in Minneapolis and Tokyo .

Selected publications

  • F. Schlögl, Chemical reaction models for nonequilibrium phase-transitions, Z. Physik 253, 147 (1972)
  • F. Schlögl, Probability and heat: fundamentals of thermostatistics, Vieweg-Verlag, 1989

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ pro-physik.de: Obituary for Friedrich Schlögl , accessed on February 15, 2018
  2. ↑ Wording and list of signatures of the manifesto against the politicization of universities ( memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , in: Blätter für German and international politics , born in 1968; Issue 8 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.dearchiv.de
  3. ^ Marburg Manifesto , in: Der Spiegel of July 22, 1968
personal data
SURNAME Schlögl, Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Erfurt
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 2011
Place of death Aachen