Gerd Burkhardt

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Gerd Burkhardt (born November 13, 1913 in Nuremberg ; † June 23, 1969 in Hanover ) was a German physicist. He devoted himself to ballistics.

Life

Burkhardt's parents were the surgeon Ludwig Burkhardt (1872–1922) and his wife Margarete geb. Schröder. He attended the Würzburger Realgymnasium , later the Siebold-Gymnasium . After graduating from high school, he studied physics at the Julius Maximilians University of Würzburg from 1931 . In 1932 he was reciprocated as Burkhardt VI in the Corps Moenania . As an inactive he moved to the TH Munich in 1933 , which made him Dr. phil. PhD. In 1937 he went to the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel (CAU) as a research assistant . In 1940 he qualified as a professor in theoretical physics at the Philosophical Faculty . As a private lecturer in Kiel from 1940 to 1945 he also worked at the Institute for Ballistics at the Air Technology Academy in Berlin-Gatow . The CAU appointed him an adjunct professor in 1947 . After being at the 1950 Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg umhabilitiert had, he was 1950/51 briefly at Laboratoire de recherches et balistiques aérodynamiques in Normandy . In 1951 he followed the call of the Technical University of Hanover to her chair for theoretical physics. In 1956 he left Moenania. In 1959 he was one of the founders of the Association of German Scientists . From 1965 he was director at UNESCO in Paris. Like his father, he did not get old and died at the age of 56. On June 12, 1971, he was posthumously reassigned to his corps' list of Philistines.

literature

  • TH Hannover (ed.): Catalogus Professorum. The teaching staff of the Technical University of Hanover 1831–1956, Hanover: TH Hanover 1956, p. 20.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 101/865
  2. ↑ Dissertation: About the shape of the Compton line .
  3. ↑ a b Gerd Burkhardt (Kiel professors from 1919 to 1965)
  4. ↑ Habilitation thesis: About the collision broadening and statistical broadening of spectral lines .
  5. ↑ Prof. Dr. Gerd Burkhardt (House of Bavarian History)
personal data
SURNAME Burkhardt, Gerd
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theoretical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1913
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH June 23, 1969
Place of death Hanover