Gerhard Hettner
Gerhard Hettner (born August 21, 1892 in Berlin , † October 29, 1968 in Munich ) was a German physicist .
Life
Gerhard Georg Hettner was a doctoral student with Heinrich Rubens in Berlin and received his doctorate there in 1918 with a thesis on the ultra-red absorption spectrum of water vapor ; he was the last recipient of the Dr. Elsa Neumann Prize. In 1922 he wrote an obituary for his doctoral supervisor.
In 1935, Hettner was appointed full professor of theoretical physics at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena.
In 1945 Hettner and his family were brought to Heidenheim / Brenz by the American occupation forces.
In 1952, Hettner was on a statute committee of the German Physical Society .
Gerhard Hettner headed the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the Technical University of Munich from 1947 to 1961 . Under his direction, research in the fields of quantum statistics, thermodynamics, solid state physics, molecular optics IDM and theoretical plasma physics was carried out in this area.
Web links
- Literature by and about Gerhard Hettner in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dr. Joachim Hartung: portrait
- ↑ Katharina Zeitz, Max von Laue (1879-1960): its importance for the reconstruction of German science after the Second World War , p. 104
- ↑ http://www.physik.tu-muenchen.de/einrichtungen/department/history ( Memento from February 14, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hettner, Gerhard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hettner, Gerhard Georg |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist, head of the chair for theoretical physics at the Technical University of Munich |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 21, 1892 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 29, 1968 |
| Place of death | Munich |