Fritz Laves
Fritz-Henning Laves (born February 27, 1906 in Hanover ; † August 12, 1978 in Laigueglia near Alassio , Italy) was a German mineralogist and crystallographer .
Life
Fritz Laves was a descendant of Georg Ludwig Friedrich Laves . After graduating from high school in Göttingen in 1924, he studied natural sciences, particularly mineralogy in Innsbruck , Göttingen and Zurich , where he did his doctorate on "Building relationships within crystal structures". He moved to the University of Göttingen and completed his habilitation there in 1932.
His fields of work were the X-ray structure analysis of crystalline solids and the properties of alloys .
After the takeover of the Nazis he sat down for his Jewish colleagues Victor Goldschmidt , but also signed on 11 November 1933, the commitment of German professors to Adolf Hitler . In 1936 he became a youth worker in the National Socialist People's Welfare and joined the Nazi Association of German Technology the following year . During the Second World War he was initially a soldier in France, then from 1940 to 1945 involved in military-relevant research on light metal alloys . At the same time, his university career developed at the University of Halle , from where he first moved to the University of Marburg in 1945 , then to the University of Chicago in 1948 and finally from 1954 to 1976 as Professor of Crystallography and Petrography at the ETH and the University of Zurich .
The intermetallic Laves phases he describes are named after him .
In 1931 he determined the eleven homogeneous networks of the level (also Laves networks). This involves tiling the level with a finite number of identical or mirror-inverted polygons , each polygon being surrounded by the entirety of the others in the same or mirror-inverted manner. The subject was also dealt with soon after (1933) by Heinrich Heesch and independently of Alexei Wassiljewitsch Schubnikow .
Honors
In 1960 he was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina . Since 1961 he was a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .
literature
- Heinz Jagodzinski: Laves, Fritz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 14, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-428-00195-8 , p. 3 ( digitized version ).
- Rüdiger RE Fock: The Kestner. A German-French-Swiss family makes history (s). Warendorf: Schnell Buch und Druck 2009. ISBN 978-3877167069
- Johann Jakob Burckhardt Symmetry of Crystals , Birkhäuser, 1988, Chapter 16, p. 128f (with photo)
- Henrik Eberle: The Martin Luther University in the time of National Socialism. Mdv, Halle 2002, ISBN 3-89812-150-X , p. 423
Web links
- Literature by and about Fritz Laves in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry on Fritz Laves in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
- Page of the University of Marburg (Engl.) ( Memento of 10 June 2015, Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Ernst Klee : The dictionary of persons on the Third Reich. Who was what before and after 1945 . Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, second updated edition, Frankfurt am Main 2005, ISBN 978-3-596-16048-8 , p. 360.
- ↑ Laves level division into areas of activity , Zeitschrift für Kristallographie, Volume 76, 1931, pp. 277–283
- ^ Member entry by Fritz-Henning Laves at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on November 14, 2015.
- ^ Fritz-Henning Laves obituary at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (PDF file).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Laves, Fritz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Laves, Fritz-Henning |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German mineralogist and crystallographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 27, 1906 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 12, 1978 |
| Place of death | Laigueglia near Alassio |