Günter Vojta

Günter Vojta (born October 23, 1928 in Bautzen ) is a German theoretical physicist .

Life

Vojta attended elementary school and high school in Kamenz , was drafted as an air force helper in 1944 and initially worked as a construction worker after the end of the Second World War, before he was able to graduate from high school in Kamenz in 1948. After a brief activity as a new teacher, he studied physics at the University of Leipzig from 1948 . After completing his studies in 1954, he was a research assistant at the University of Leipzig until 1958 and then until 1960 department head at the Institute for Physical Substance Separation Leipzig of the then German Academy of Sciences in Berlin (AdW) as well as a lecturer at the University of Leipzig. In 1957 he received his doctorate there with the thesis A theory of saturation in nuclear magnetic resonance . Bernhard Kockel and Artur Lösche were reviewers for the dissertation . After his habilitation in 1960 he was head of the statistical physics department at the Central Institute for Isotope and Radiation Research at the AdW from 1961 to 1970 . From 1962 to 1970 he was also honorary professor for theoretical physics at the University of Leipzig. In 1970 he became department director at the Central Institute for Solid State Physics and Materials Research in Dresden and honorary professor at the Technical University of Dresden . From 1984 until his retirement in 1993 he was a full professor of theoretical physics at the University of Leipzig.

Vojta worked specifically in the field of statistical physics and the application of its methods in solid state and plasma physics as well as in physical and theoretical chemistry. He also published works on the thermodynamics of irreversible processes.

In 1970 he became a corresponding and in 1975 a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR. In 1986 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . From 1993 to 2011 he was a member of the Leibniz Society .

Fonts (selection)

• G. Vojta: On the statistical thermodynamics of ideal gases with isotope-substituted molecules . In: Journal of physical chemistry . tape 217 , no. 5/6 , 1961, pp. 337-352 , doi : 10.1515 / zpch-1961-21725 .
• G. Vojta: Calculation of the vibration state sum of degenerate anharmonic oscillators with the help of Mellin's integral transformation . In: Annals of Physics . tape 462 , no. 7-8 , 1961, pp. 397-402 , doi : 10.1002 / andp.19614620707 .
• F. Goedsche, R. Richter, G. Vojta: Force-force correlation function approach to the electrical resistivity of disordered transition metal alloys . In: Physica Status Solidi . tape 91 , no. 2 , 1979, p. 581-591 , doi : 10.1002 / pssb.2220910224 .
• Herbert Spindler, Günter Vojta: Fractals in physical chemistry . In: Journal of Chemistry . tape 28 , no. 12 , 1988, pp. 421-427 , doi : 10.1002 / zfch.19880281202 .
• Jörg Kärger , Harry Pfeifer, Günter Vojta: Time correlation during anomalous diffusion in fractal systems and signal attenuation in NMR field-gradient spectroscopy . In: Physical Review A . tape 37 , no. 11 , 1988, pp. 4514-4517 , doi : 10.1103 / PhysRevA.37.4514 .
• Günter Vojta, Matthias Vojta: Teubner pocket book of statistical physics . BG Teubner, Stuttgart, Leipzig 2000, ISBN 978-3-322-80010-7 , pp. XIII, 508 .

literature

• Vojta, Günter. Short biography. University of Leipzig, accessed on January 17, 2019 . 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Günter Vojta in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
2. ^ Members of the predecessor academies: Günter Vojta. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities , accessed on January 17, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Member entry by Günter Vojta at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on January 17, 2019.

Web links

• Dieter Hoffmann :  Vojta, Günter . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 2. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• Günter Vojta in the Theoretical Chemistry Genealogy Project