George J. Schulz

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George J. Schulz (born April 29, 1925 in Brno , † January 15, 1976 in New Haven ) was an American physicist. He dealt with atomic physics and especially scattering on atoms and molecules.

Schulz came to the United States in 1947 and studied physics at Pennsylvania State College with a bachelor's degree in 1949 and in 1950 received a master's degree from Pennsylvania State College. From 1949 to 1951 he was an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University and from 1951 to 1954 assistant professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , where he received his doctorate in physics in 1954. From 1954 to 1966 he did research at the Westinghouse Research Laboratories in Pittsburgh. There he was in the group for atomic physics and initially determined cross-sections for electron impacts on atoms, for which he developed electron beams with an increasingly narrow energy spectrum and to measure resonances (compound states from the electron and the target molecule or atom). He found numerous resonances (such as the 19.3 eV resonance in 1963 when electrons were scattered by helium) and attributed the increase in the cross-sections for vibrational excitations of diatomic molecules such as dinitrogen to such compound resonances. This had practical applications in gas lasers. Later he also dealt with electron scattering from more complex molecules. From 1966 to 1976 he was Professor of Applied Physics at Yale University .

He wrote widespread review articles and ensured a more effective exchange of information, for example in workshops at the Gaseous Electronics conferences.

In 1965 he received the first Davisson-Germer Prize .

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  • Resonances in Electron Impact on Atoms, Reviews of Modern Physics, Volume 45, 1973, p. 378
  • Resonances in Electron Impact on Diatomic Molecules, Reviews of Modern Physics, Volume 45, 1973, p. 423
  • Resonances in Electron Impact on Atoms and Diatomic Molecules, NSRDS-NBS 50, 1973

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SURNAME Schulz, George J.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Brno
DATE OF DEATH 15th January 1976
Place of death New Haven