Gisbert zu Putlitz

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Gisbert Freiherr zu Putlitz (actually: Gisbert Gans Edler Herr zu Putlitz ) (born February 14, 1931 in Rostock ) is a German physicist , university professor and science manager. He was rector of the University of Heidelberg and the University for Jewish Studies in Heidelberg and President of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences .

Life

He comes from the old aristocratic family Gans zu Putlitz . After the Second World War, the parents' estate in Groß Pankow in the Margraviate of Brandenburg was expropriated without compensation, and his father Waldemar zu Putlitz was killed when the Red Army marched in on May 2, 1945. After that, Zu Putlitz worked as a farm worker and woodcutter in addition to school. This is how he fed his mother and siblings. This was followed by fleeing to the West and graduating from high school in Erlangen. Between 1951 and 1953, zu Putlitz completed an apprenticeship as a mechanic at the Zündapp works in Nuremberg. At the end of 1953 he began studying physics in Heidelberg, which he graduated with a diploma in 1961. In 1962 he received his doctorate from Hans Kopfermann in Heidelberg .

Then he was a research assistant at the 1st Physics Institute, where he led a working group. In 1966 he completed his habilitation in Heidelberg and became senior assistant. 1967/68 he was a visiting scholar and lecturer at Yale University . In 1969 he became scientific advisor and shortly thereafter an adjunct professor in Heidelberg and, as a fellow of the Volkswagen Foundation (1969 to 1972), did research at various accelerator facilities such as the LAMPF of the Los Alamos National Laboratory , at Columbia University (Nevis Cyclotron), at the Swiss Institute for Nuclear Physics ( SIN) in Villigen (now part of the Paul Scherrer Institute ) and the British Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. In 1973 he became a full professor in Heidelberg, where he was provisional head of the Institute for Applied Physics from 1972.

From 1978 to 1983 he headed the Society for Heavy Ion Research in Darmstadt , where the first superheavy elements were discovered at that time. At the same time, from 1981 to 1983 he was chairman of what was then the "Arbeitsgemeinschaft der Großforschungseinrichtungen" (Working Group of Large Research Institutions), today's Helmholtz Association , after having been on the Board of Directors from 1979. From 1983 to 1987 he was rector of Heidelberg University; In 1986, when he was rector, the university celebrated its 600th anniversary, which was celebrated over a whole year. From 2000 to 2003, zu Putlitz was President of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences . From 1986 to 2008, zu Putlitz was Executive Chairman of the Board of Management of the Gottlieb Daimler and Karl Benz Foundation . As a scientist, Zu Putlitz made intensive contacts with the Soviet Union, Poland, China and Vietnam.

Zu Putlitz worked scientifically in nuclear and atomic physics, elementary particle physics and solid state physics (quantum liquids).

In 1978 he became a Fellow of the American Physical Society . He is a member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts , the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences , the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and the Academia Europaea . He has also been a member of the Leopoldina since 1993 . He has also been an external scientific member of the Max Planck Society at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg since 1981 . Putlitz is also a member of the German Academy of Science and Engineering (Acatech) .

Zu Putlitz and his three sons also take care of the repurchased property in Brandenburg.

Fonts

  • zu Putlitz (editor), Interdisciplinary Science Reviews, Volume 9, Issue 4, 1984, special issue on heavy ion physics
  • Klaus Peter Jungmann (editor): Atomic physics methods in modern research: selection of papers dedicated to Gisbert zu Putlitz on the occasion of his 65th birthday , Springer, Lecturenotes in Physics, Volume 499, 1997
  • zu Putlitz (editor): Atomic Physics 4 , 4th International Conference on Atomic Physics, Heidelberg 1974, Plenum Press 1975
  • zu Putzlitz: From "chamber physics" to large-scale research , in I. Appenzeller u. a. (Ed.), Heidelberg physicists report, Volume 2, Heidelberg University Library 2017 (memories and rector of the great university anniversary )

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Gisbert Gans Edler Herr zu Putlitz in conversation with Ulrike Leutheusser (2002). BR Alpha, February 6, 2002, accessed August 21, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Manfred Lindinger: A knight of experimental physics . Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, February 14, 2011
  3. ↑ Gisbert zu Putlitz: Determination of the electrical nuclear quadrupole moments of the two uneven stable barium isotopes Ba135 and Ba137 (dissertation) . Heidelberg 1962.
  4. ↑ Gisbert zu Putlitz: The Sternheimer Effect in the Rubidium Atom (Habilitation) . Heidelberg 1966.
  5. ^ Gisbert Freiherr zu Putlitz. Who's Who, accessed August 21, 2014 .
  6. ↑ APS Fellow Archive. Retrieved February 9, 2020 .
  7. ↑ EuropAcad ( Memento of the original dated November 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. → Gisbert WAW Freiherr zu Putlitz  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.euro-acad.eu
  8. ^ Directory of members: Gisbert zu Putlitz. Academia Europaea, accessed July 29, 2017 .
  9. ^ Member entry by Gisbert Frhr. zu Putlitz at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , accessed on August 21, 2014.
  10. ↑ Frank Diering: Many of those affected want land instead of money. Die Welt, January 29, 2004, accessed on August 21, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Putlitz, Gisbert too
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Putlitz, Gisbert Freiherr zu (full name); Putlitz, Gisbert Gans Edler Herr zu (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and science manager
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Rostock