Hans-Dieter Betz

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Hans-Dieter Betz (born September 29, 1940 in Mannheim ) is a German experimental physicist and emeritus university professor .

Research and teaching

Betz studied physics at the University of Heidelberg and received his doctorate in laser technology in 1967. He taught and researched from 1967 to 1972 as a research associate and assistant professor in the field of atomic physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge , then in the accelerator laboratory of the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , completed his habilitation in 1974, and taught as a private lecturer from 1980 to his retirement as professor . From 1994 he expanded his research to atmospheric physics .

Research areas

The focus at the Ludwig Maximilians University was on basic research and international cooperation in atomic and nuclear physics, especially for high-energy atomic collisions. Betz later initiated the group “Atmospheric Electricity of the Atmosphere”. This resulted in the nowcast GmbH spin-off in 2002, in which Betz developed and created the LINET lightning detection system. The system has been operated professionally since then and provides weather services and industrial customers worldwide with real-time and historical lightning data. Together with DLR and NASA , Betz investigated current questions about lightning research.

Betz was also active in scientific border areas and investigated "unconventional water prospection" with dowsing rods on behalf of the German government and the GTZ (Society for Technical Cooperation). His interpretation of the results of his barn experiments in Munich were not accepted by the scientific community.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ H.-D. Betz: An Asymmetry Method for High Precision Alignment with Laser Light , Applied Optics, Vol. 8, pp. 1007-1013, 1969
  2. ↑ Betz's article: Charge States and Charge-Changing Cross Sections of Fast Heavy Ions Penetrating Through Gaseous and Solid Media published by the American Physical Society proves his research at MIT
  3. ↑ Hans D. Betz: Charge Equilibration of High-Velocity Ions in Matter . In: Methods in Experimental Physics (=  Atomic Physics ). tape 17 . Academic Press, January 1, 1980, pp. 73–148 ( sciencedirect.com [accessed May 15, 2020]).
  4. ^ Betz et al .: “LINET - An International VLF / LF Lightning Detection Network in Europe ”, in: “Lightning: Principles, Instruments and Applications”, Eds. Betz et al., Ch. 5, Dordrecht (NL), Springer 2008.
  5. ↑ Betz and Möhrlein: All 3D Technology - Recognition of severe thunderstorms in: Meteorological - Technology International, April 2014, 80-82.
  6. ↑ H.-D. Betz: Unconventional water prospection , GTZ series of publications, Eschborn, 1991.
  7. ^ "Unconventional Water Detection". October 5, 2008, accessed May 18, 2020 .
  8. ↑ JT Enright: Water dowsing: The Scheunen experiments, in: Naturwissenschaften 82 (1995), 360–369.
  9. ↑ H.-D. Betz et al: Dowsing reviewed - The effect persists , in: Naturwissenschaften 83 (1996), 272-275.

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personal data
SURNAME Betz, Hans-Dieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German experimental physicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim