Gustav-Adolf Voss

Gustav-Adolf Voss (* 1929 in Berlin ; † October 5, 2013 in Hamburg ), called Gus Voss , was a German physicist who dealt with particle accelerator physics .

Life

Voss received his doctorate in physics from the TU Berlin in 1955 and was involved in the initial development of DESY in Hamburg from 1956 . He then spent 14 years at the Cambridge Electron Accelerator (CEA) with M. Stanley Livingston and Kenneth W. Robinson . With Robinson he invented the technique of low beta insertion for beam focusing in storage rings. From 1973 until his retirement in 1994 he was a member of the DESY board of directors and, from 1974, a physics professor at the University of Hamburg . At DESY he was responsible, among other things, for setting up the electron-positron storage ring PETRA (which was completed under his leadership more than six months ahead of schedule, in time for one of DESY's greatest successes, the discovery of the gluon at the end of the 1970s ) and then for HERA storage rings.

After his retirement he was involved in the SESAME project in Jordan.

In 1994 he was awarded the Robert R. Wilson Prize of the American Physical Society . In 2010 he received the Tate Medal from the American Institute of Physics , highlighting his commitment to supporting Eastern European particle physicists after the collapse of the Soviet Union, stimulating accelerator technology in Europe and his commitment to SESAME. In 2009 he became the first recipient of the DESY Golden Badge of Honor.

With Ulrike Voss and Dagmar Willhöft he wrote a book Help we are irradiated .

literature

• Andrew Sessler , Edmund Wilson: Engines of discovery - a century of particle accelerators. World Scientific 2007, p. 81.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DESY mourns the loss of Gustav-Adolf Voss , DESY website, October 7, 2013, accessed on October 15, 2013.
2. ^ Tate Medal for Voss, DESY
3. ↑ Interview in the TAZ