Gustav Richter (physicist)

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Gustav Richter (born March 10, 1911 in Yokohama , Japan ; † December 9, 1999 in Berlin ) was a German physicist.

Life and research

Gustav Richter moved from Japan to Germany in 1926 and graduated from high school in Hirschberg in 1931. He completed his physics studies in 1936 with a diploma. In the same year he received his doctorate in physics at the Technical University of Berlin-Charlottenburg . Richter became research assistant to Richard Becker at the University of Göttingen . Shortly before the war, he moved to Research Laboratory II at Siemenswerke in Berlin under the direction of Gustav Hertz .

After the war, he joined the “Hertz Group” at the end of 1945 to help develop the Soviet atomic bomb . After a stopover in Moscow, the group was moved to Sukhumi ( Abkhazia ) (see Werner Hartmann: 1945–1955: The USSR Decade ). At the beginning of 1946 he moved to the “ Volmer Group ” in Moscow and, together with Victor Bayerl, developed a system for the extraction of heavy water by fractional distillation of ammonia . The plant was built in Norilsk (see Oleynikov, Pavel V .: German Scientists in the Soviet Atomic Project, The Nonproliferation Review Volume 7, Number 2, 1-30).

In 1955 Richter returned to Germany to the nuclear physics institute of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Miersdorf near Berlin, where he became director a year later. He also became a professor at the chair for theoretical nuclear physics at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig , whose director Gustav Hertz was. In 1962 he became director of the newly founded Institute for Special Problems in Theoretical Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR , which was incorporated into the Central Institute for Optics and Spectroscopy during the academy reform in 1969 .

Richter retired in 1976 and died in Berlin in 1999.

From 1958 to 1985 he was co-editor of the journal Annalen der Physik .

Award

In 1966 Richter received the GDR National Prize for Science and Technology because of his services to the development of quantum electronics .

Fonts

  • About the magnetic after-effects on carbonyl iron. In: Annals of Physics. Episode 5, Volume 29, Issue 7 (= Dissertation TH Berlin 1936) JA Barth, Leipzig 1937, pp. 605-635.
  • Physics and industry: from the life and work of Nobel Prize winner Prof. Dr. Gustav Hertz. Leipzig, Karl Marx University, 1979. (Lecture)
  • Gustav Richter: Gustav Hertz . In: Berlinische Lebensbilder . tape 1 : Naturwissenschaftler , 1987, ISBN 3-7678-0697-5 , pp. 344-358 .

literature

  • Alfred Neubauer: "If there is a ruin, then an imposing ruin." In: Spectrum. 21, No. 6, 1990, pp. 30-31.

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personal data
SURNAME Judge, Gustav
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1911
PLACE OF BIRTH Yokohama
DATE OF DEATH December 9, 1999
Place of death Berlin