Gerhard Weber (physicist)

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Gerhard Weber (born October 8, 1921 in Langenwetzendorf ; † February 6, 2016 in Jena ) was a German physicist and university professor .

Life

After studying physics at the University of Jena from 1943 to 1950, Weber was assistant and senior assistant at the Theoretical-Physical Institute at the University of Jena when Friedrich Hund and then Kurt Schuster headed the institute. In 1953 he received his doctorate and habilitation in 1960, after which he was a lecturer in Jena. In 1963 Weber was appointed professor with a teaching assignment (1965 with a full teaching assignment). As part of the 3rd university reform (1967/68), the institute was split up and Weber was given the chair for quantum theory in 1968 . He successfully led his department through all further reforms and state interventions up to his retirement in 1986.

In his lectures, Weber continued Friedrich Hund's range of lectures. His research interests included the atomic and molecular physics , the quantum chemistry that nonlinear optics and quantum optics and quantum field theory . Together with Gerhard Heber (1927–2010) and Max Schubert (1926–1998) he wrote textbooks on quantum physics .

Fonts

  • with Gerhard Heber: Fundamentals of Quantum Physics, Volume 1: Quantum Mechanics, Teubner Study Books, 1971 (first Teubner, Leipzig 1956)
  • with Gerhard Heber: Fundamentals of Quantum Physics, Volume 2: Quantum Field Theory, Teubner 1971
  • with Max Schubert: Quantum Theory, Deutscher Verlag der Wissenschaften 1983

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary notice: Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Gerhard Weber In: OTZ grief. de ; accessed on October 7, 2018
  2. ↑ Prof. em. Dr. Gerhard Weber died at the age of 94 (accessed July 1, 2016).
  3. ^ Ernst Schmutzer : Obituary for Gerhard Weber . In: Physics Journal . tape 15 , no. 5 , 2016, p. 53 .
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH October 8, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Langenwetzendorf
DATE OF DEATH February 6, 2016
Place of death Jena