Günter Schöppe

Günter Schöppe (born March 16, 1936 in Gera ) is a German engineer.

Life

After graduating from elementary school, he learned the profession of optician between 1950 and 1953 . He then obtained secondary school leaving certificate in evening school and completed his studies at the technical school for optics in Jena as a state-certified master optician. In 1969 he graduated as an engineer for industrial engineering, measurement, control and regulation technology (BMSR) at the Jena University of Applied Sciences.

In 1957 he started working for VEB Carl Zeiss Jena . Between 1959 and 1961 he worked at the Dubna Nuclear Research Center in Russia on the development of an automated nuclear track measuring microscope.

Beginning in 1964, he and his laboratory manager Hermann Beyer developed the basic principle of an interference microscope (arrangement according to Beyer-Schöppe), which was patented and came onto the market in 1966 as the "Interphako" product and in the following period one of the most commercially successful Interference microscopes in the world. From 1976 to 1978 Schöppe played a key role in the development of a microscope for the automated measurement of the electrophoretic mobility of cells (Parmoquant), for which he was honored in 1978 with the GDR National Prize for Science and Technology. Other focal points of his development work were contributions to laser scanning microscopy.

Günter Schöppe lives with his wife Marietta in Jena.

Publications

• Some chapters on interference microscopy in: Beyer, Riesenberg: Handbuch der Mikrospopie . VEB Verlag Technik, Berlin, ISBN 978-3341002834
• Theory and Practice of Interference Microscopy . (= Volume 29, technical-physical monograph ), Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Geest & Portig KG, Leipzig 1974