Gerhard Gerlich (physicist)

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Gerhard Gerlich (born April 6, 1942 in Prague ; † November 8, 2014 ) was a German professor of mathematical physics at the Technical University of Braunschweig . He was the son of the politician of the same name .

Life

In May 1945, Gerlich fled to the Saxon town of Hohnstädt near Grimma together with his mother and sisters . After his father was released from Soviet captivity, the family moved to Neumünster in May 1948 . After graduating from high school in 1962, Gerlich studied physics, mathematics and chemistry at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel . In 1967 he received a diploma in physics, after employment as a research assistant at the Technical University of Braunschweig, he received his doctorate in 1970 (tensor potentials in magnetohydrodynamics and the dynamo problem) . Then he was assistant and senior assistant there and completed his habilitation on May 12, 1975 in Braunschweig. After prior appointment as a university lecturer and then as an adjunct professor, he received a chair at the TU Braunschweig on December 14, 1978.

Gerlich was married and had three children.

Fundamental criticism of the greenhouse effect

His publications include fundamentally critical articles on the greenhouse effect , in which he comes to the conclusion that an atmospheric greenhouse effect caused by carbon dioxide does not exist and that climate models used in climate research that are based on this do not have any scientific basis. Rather, in his opinion, changes in cloud cover are the cause of changes in temperatures near the ground or sea surfaces. As an introduction to these articles, he emphasizes that it is important to him that he is not a climate scientist , but a theoretical physicist and "understands more of the physical principles of the fictitious atmospheric greenhouse effects" than all climatologists put together. The work was criticized from various quarters, for example from the English-language blog Skeptical Science . In a replica by Halpern et al. Gerlich and his co-author Ralf Tscheuschner were accused of fundamental errors. Gerlich and Tscheuschner defended their point of view.

Fonts

  • A new introduction to the statistical and mathematical methods of quantum theory , Braunschweig: Vieweg 1977
  • Vector and tensor calculations for physics , Vieweg 1977

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Gerhard Gerlich ( Memento from December 4, 2010 in the Internet Archive ), Institute for Mathematical Physics, Technical University of Braunschweig.
  2. ↑ a b Muslim-Markt interviews Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Gerhard Gerlich, Institute for Mathematical Physics at the Technical University Carolo-Wilhelmina in Braunschweig April 18, 2007. on muslim-markt.de
  3. ^ Gerhard Gerlich, Ralf D. Tscheuschner: Falsification Of The Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects Within The Frame Of Physics. International Journal of Modern Physics B, Volume 23, 2009, pp. 275 ff. Arxiv : 0707.1161
  4. ↑ Gerhard Gerlich, Ralf D. Tscheuschner: Falsification of the atmospheric CO2 greenhouse effects in the context of physics (German translation, PDF)
  5. ↑ a b Gerhard Gerlich, Ralf D. Tscheuschner: Reply to "Comment on 'Falsification Of The Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects Within The Frame Of Physics' by Joshua B. Halpern (...)" International Journal of Modern Physics B, Volume 24, 2010 , P. 1333 ff. Arxiv : 1012.0421
  6. ↑ On the physics and mathematics of global climate models. on ib-rauch.de
  7. ↑ The greenhouse effect and the second law of thermodynamics (Online) on skepticalscience.com
  8. ↑ Joshua B. Halpern, Christopher M. Colose, Chris Ho-Stuart, Joel D. Shore, Arthur P. Smith, Jörg Zimmermann: Comment On "Falsification Of The Atmospheric CO2 Greenhouse Effects Within The Frame Of Physics". International Journal of Modern Physics B, Volume 24, 2010, pp. 1309 ff. Doi : 10.1142 / S021797921005555X
personal data
SURNAME Gerlich, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and university professor for mathematical physics
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Prague
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 2014