Fritz Stockmann

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Fritz Stöckmann (born October 19, 1918 in Fallingbostel ; † January 21, 1998 in Karlsruhe ) was a German physicist who dealt with solid-state physics and especially semiconductor physics .

Life

Stöckmann had been studying in Göttingen with Robert Wichard Pohl and Rudolf Hilsch since 1937 and actually wanted to do his doctorate with Hilsch, but when Stöckmann returned to Erlangen from an exchange semester in Freiburg and Munich, he received his doctorate from Pohl in 1942 (on selective boundary layer photoeffect of alkali metals). He was not drafted for military service because he had lost an eye soon after his birth. Stöckmann had been a member of the NSDAP since 1938. He was Erich Mollwo's successor as Pohl's assistant, which he remained for almost ten years. In 1950 he completed his habilitation on the conductivity of zinc oxide. In 1952 he went as a senior assistant to Hans König with him from Göttingen to the TH Darmstadt , where he became a lecturer in 1955 and an associate professor in 1956. 1954/55 he was with Karl Lark-Horovitz at Purdue University . In 1959 he became professor for applied physics at the TH Karlsruhe (the chair was newly created at that time). He was dean several times and retired in 1984.

With Heinz Pick he coined the term defect electron . In the 1950s he dealt with photoconduction in semiconductors and the interaction of the impurities with the conduction electrons, with the influence of contacts and relaxation phenomena.

He was on the advisory board of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Solid State Physics and for several years chaired the DFG specialist committee for physics. He has been co-editor of Physica Status Solidi since it was founded in 1961 .

His son Hans-Jürgen Stöckmann also became a physicist.

Fonts

  • About the conduction of electricity in semiconductors, natural sciences, Volume 35, 1952, pp. 85, 105, addendum p. 523
  • On the dependence of photoelectric currents on the field strength, Zeitschrift für Physik, Volume 147, 1957, pp. 544-566,
  • On electron microscopy, retrospectives and outlooks, Physikalische Blätter, Volume 36, April 1980, online
  • Electrical communication and the resolution limit of optical systems, Physikalische Blätter, Volume 29, April 1973, pp. 153-157, online
  • Sternmatter 1–3, Phys. Blätter, Volume 28, 1972, 153-160, 212-219, 269-273, Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3
  • Optoelectronics, Phys. Blätter, Volume 17, 1961, pp. 14-20, online

literature

  • W. Buckel, C. Klingshirn, W. Ruppel, W. Stößel: Fritz Stöckmann zum Gedenken, Physikalische Blätter, Volume 54, June 1998, p. 539, online

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theoretical Chemistry Genealogy Project
  2. ^ Gerhard Rammer, The Nazification and Denazification of Physics at the University of Göttingen, Dissertation, Göttingen 2004, pdf
personal data
SURNAME Stöckmann, Fritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Fallingbostel
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 1998
Place of death Karlsruhe