Günther Mönch

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Günther Christian Mönch (born January 9, 1902 in Berlin-Charlottenburg , † May 8, 1988 in Hamburg ) was a German physicist.

Mönch was the son of a businessman and from 1922 studied physics, chemistry, mathematics and philosophy at the University of Berlin , where he obtained his doctorate under Peter Pringsheim in 1928 with a dissertation on the contact potential between metals in a vacuum. He then worked as an assistant to Bernhard Gudden at the University of Erlangen, where he dealt with semiconductors and completed his habilitation in 1934 ( voltaic voltage, work function and thermal voltage ). From 1936 to 1941 he was at the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt in Berlin and also taught from 1939 as a lecturer at the TH Berlin-Charlottenburg.

At the Reichsanstalt he worked on length measurement with light interference and a definition of the meter with this method as a multiple of the wavelength of an emission line of cadmium (with Wilhelm Kösters ). This method was approved by the International Unit Commission from 1927 and lasted until 1983 (after that it was defined as the length that light travels in a certain time unit), with a wavelength of krypton being used from 1960.

In 1941 he became a lecturer in applied and technical physics at the University of Königsberg and in 1942 an extraordinary professor. In 1945 he became a professor at the University of Halle and director of the newly founded second physical institute for applied physics. Here he dealt in particular with semiconductor physics and high vacuum technology.

In 1958 Günther Mönch was elected a member of the Leopoldina .

Fonts

  • Vacuum technology in the laboratory, Weimar: Verlag Glas und Apparat R. Wagner Sohn, 1937, 2nd edition 1950 (at Lang in Pössneck) as: High vacuum technology
  • Semiconductors, their manufacture in the laboratory, and natural forms and occurrences, 1953
  • Thin layers, their production and measurement, 1953
  • Length measurement and determination of the refractive index with light interference, Leipzig: Fachbuchverlag, 1954, 2nd edition, Teubner 1966 as: Interference length measurement and determination of the refractive index
  • New and proven from high vacuum technology, VEB Verlag Technik 1959

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  1. ↑ Member entry of Günther Mönch at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on September 27, 2017.
personal data
SURNAME Monk, Günther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Monk, Günther Christian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 9, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 8, 1988
Place of death Hamburg