Fritz Sauter (physicist)

Fritz Eduard Josef Maria Sauter (born June 9, 1906 in Innsbruck ; † May 24, 1983 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen ) was an Austrian theoretical physicist.

Life

Sauter studied mathematics and physics at the University of Innsbruck from 1924 to 1928 , where he received his doctorate in 1928 under Arthur March with a thesis on diffraction theory. Then he was assistant to Arnold Sommerfeld in Munich . From 1931 to 1934 he was Richard Becker's assistant at the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg . From 1933 he was a private lecturer there. After Max Born was expelled by the National Socialists as director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Göttingen in 1933 , Sauter became his acting successor until Richard Becker was officially appointed in 1936. Sauter was a professor at the from 1939Albertus University in Königsberg and from 1942 to 1945 at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . In 1950/1 he was acting head of the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the TH Hannover and then taught in Göttingen and Bamberg before becoming a professor at the University of Cologne in 1952 . There he retired in 1971.

In the 1930s, Sauter dealt with early quantum electrodynamics and theoretical solid-state physics. He wrote books on differential equations in theoretical physics and was co-editor of Sommerfeld's lectures on partial differential equations and Richard Becker's "Theory of Electricity".

Fritz Bopp and Herbert Kroemer are among his students .

In 1965 he received an honorary doctorate from the Vienna University of Technology

He should not be confused with the Viennese chemist Fritz Sauter (* 1930).

Fonts

• Differential equations in physics , de Gruyter, 1950, 4th edition 1966
• with Richard Becker Theory of Electricity , three volumes, Teubner 1957 to 1969
• From the physical hypothesis to the law of nature , Krefeld 1955

literature

• TH Hannover (ed.): Catalogus Professorum. The teaching staff of the Technical University of Hanover 1831–1956, Hanover: TH Hanover 1956, p. 21.

Web links

• Literature by and about Fritz Sauter in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ TU Wien: Honorary doctorates ( memento of the original from February 21, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved March 26, 2015.