Hans-Eckhart Gumlich

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Hans-Eckhart Gumlich (born March 10, 1926 in Markersdorf ; † February 23, 2013 in Berlin ) was a German solid-state physicist and university professor .

Life

Hans-Eckhart Gumlich received his doctorate from the Technical University of Berlin in 1958 . His dissertation dealt with his specialty, the luminescence of manganese-doped semiconductors. From 1959 to 1969 he worked at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin , interrupted by a research stay at the University of Delaware in 1962/63. He completed his habilitation in 1968 at the Technical University of Berlin and was professor at the Institute for Solid State Physics at the TU Berlin from 1969 until his retirement in 1994.

As a member of the university's academic senate , as managing director of the Institute for Solid State Physics and as dean of the physics department, Gumlich was involved in university policy issues. For more than six decades he was a member of the Protestant academy and campaigned for the exchange between the natural sciences and the humanities.

Works (selection)

  • A year for physics: Newton, Feynman and others (with Christian Thomsen ), 2nd edition, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-928943-94-4
  • Energy transport in electroluminescence and electrophotoluminescence of II-VI compounds , Braunschweig 1970
  • Electroluminescence of II-VI compounds (Habil.), Berlin 1968
  • The amplification and extinction of the luminescence of manganese-activated zinc sulfides by electrical fields (Diss.), Berlin 1958

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituaries, Tagesspiegel , March 31, 2013, p. 15
personal data
SURNAME Gumlich, Hans-Eckhart
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Markersdorf
DATE OF DEATH February 23, 2013
Place of death Berlin