Gerhard Kluge (physicist)
Gerhard Kluge (born July 10, 1934 in Petersdorf , Riesengebirge, † May 3, 2011 in Jena ) was a German physicist.
Life
Kluge first learned the trade of toolmaker in Apolda and, after graduating from high school, which he passed at the workers and farmers faculty in Jena, studied physics at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena from 1955 to 1960 . After graduating, he was an assistant at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at this university and received his doctorate in 1964 under Kurt Schuster with a thesis on sound propagation in dissipative planar waveguides. After completing his habilitation, he became a lecturer in 1979, continuing to work on continuum mechanics, thermodynamics and later on superconductivity and meteorology . Appointed professor after the political change , he also campaigned for the investigation of the Stasi entanglements at the Friedrich Schiller University in Jena.
Publications
- with Hans Stephani : Fundamentals of theoretical mechanics . German Science Publishers, Berlin 1975.
- with Gernot Neugebauer : Basics of Thermodynamics . German Science Publishing House, Berlin 1976.
- with Hans Stephani : Theoretical Mechanics: Point and Continuum Mechanics . Spectrum Academic Publishing House, Heidelberg - Berlin - Oxford 1995. ISBN 3-86025-284-4
- with Reinhard Meinel : MfS and FSU: the work of the Ministry for State Security at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena . State Commissioner of the Free State of Thuringia for the documents of the State Security Service of the former GDR, 1997 - 231 pages.
- with Oliver Schmitt: The "NATO Professor" Walter Brödel . Erfurt 1999. ISBN 3932303199 .
Web links
- Obituary by Gernot Neugebauer (PDF; 337 kB)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Kluge, Gerhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 10, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Petersdorf , Giant Mountains |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 3, 2011 |
| Place of death | Jena |