Hans Breuer (physicist)

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Hans Breuer in the Kirstenbosch Botanical Garden (2016)

Hans Breuer (born October 22, 1933 in Frankfurt am Main ; † April 19, 2020 in Somerset West , Western Cape ) was a German-South African biophysicist .

Life

Breuer was the first of five children of Albert and Erna Breuer. In Berlin he attended the Karl-Friedrich-Schinkel Gymnasium. After graduating from high school, he first studied physics at the Humboldt University . In 1954 he left East Berlin . He moved to the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main and was reciprocated in the Corps Saxonia Frankfurt in 1958 . In July 1958 he passed the diploma examination summa cum laude . As a research assistant at the Max Planck Institute of Biophysics , he was in February 1962 cum laude for Dr. phil. nat. PhD. Supported by the German National Academic Foundation , he studied medicine at the University of Innsbruck and the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen from the summer semester 1962 to the winter semester 1964. With Walter Jens he attended lectures on modern German literature . In 1965 he was a postdoctoral researcher at the linear accelerator in Saskatoon . In July 1966 he went to the TH Darmstadt . The following year he became an assistant professor of physics at the University of Saskatchewan . He got a permanent position in June 1969 , but went to State College in California (Pennsylvania) as an assistant professor . In 1971 he was permanently employed.

Hans Breuer on the quay together with his son Klaus in the 1970s

From August 1971 to October 1976 he lived as a freelance writer on board the 60-foot yacht Kajen . From September to December 1976 he was visiting professor at the Max Planck Institute for Biophysics in Frankfurt. He then worked in Vienna as a scientific official for the International Atomic Energy Agency . The Breuers emigrated to South Africa in October 1981 and bought Kees Bruynzeel's house in the Western Cape . In Faure near Stellenbosch , Breuer was a Principal Scientist at the National Accelerator Center . At the same time he held physics lectures for students of life sciences at the University of Cape Town (UCT) . From January 1985 he was a consultant at the UCT Medical School for five years. At that time he advised the heart surgeon Bruno Reichart . In 1991, the UCT appointed Breuer Honorary Lecturer at the Medical Faculty .

Breuer was married to Rosemarie born in 1967. Mountain. The sons Klaus (1968–2013), Hannes (1970) and Florian (1977) were born in Saskatchewan, Pennsylvania and Vienna. With them he developed a program for proton therapy from 1993 to 1996 . Breuer's interests were physics, astronomy, history and above all travel. Almost blind, he last lived with his family in Somerset West, where he died in April 2020 at the age of 86.

Travel to 1968

Breuer has reported on many journeys in books. On behalf of Kurt Schröder Verlag (Bonn), he traveled to Libya in 1969, three weeks before the coup of Muammar al-Gaddafi .

Books

  • Morocco . Kurt Schröder Verlag, Bonn 1963, 2nd edition 1972.
  • Dictionary for Computer Languages . Academic Press, London 1966.
  • Experiments in Modern Physics . University of Saskatchewan Press, Saskatoon 1968.
  • Fortran primer . Bibliographical Institute , Mannheim 1969.
  • Columbus was Chinese - discoveries and inventions in the Far East , Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 1970, 2nd edition 1972; Paperback, dtv 1979. English edition: Herder & Herder, New York 1972.
  • Algol primer . Mannheim 1973.
  • PL1 primer , Mannheim 1973.
  • Physics for Life Science Students , Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, USA, 1975.
  • Pocket dictionary of the programming languages ​​Algol, Fortran, PL1 , BI, Mannheim, 1976.
  • Physics for doctors and scientists . Thieme, Stuttgart; dtv, Munich 1978.
  • Utility Mathematics: Adaptation and Translation of Clifford Swartz, Used Math . dtv, Munich 1979
  • Discovered - researched - developed , Vol. 1, dtv, Munich 1981.
  • Discovered - researched - developed , Vol. 2, dtv, Munich 1983.
  • Atlas of Chemistry, General and Inorganic Chemistry . dtv, Munich 1981; 10th edition 2004, translated into 9 languages.
  • Atlas of chemistry, organic chemistry . dtv, Munich 1983; 9th edition 2000, translated into 9 languages.
  • with Klaus Breuer, Die Basic Fibel . Mannheim 1986.
  • Physics atlas . dtv, Munich, translated into 7 languages:
  • Pocket atlas of physics for medical professionals . Springer, Heidelberg 1989.
  • with GG Jaros: Physics and Chemistry for Nurses , Butterworth, Durban 1990.
  • Computer Science Atlas . dtv, Munich 1995.
  • with GG Jaros: Physics and Chemistry for Health Care Professionals , Heinemann, Johannesburg 1997.
  • with BJ Smit: Proton Therapy and Radiosurgery . Springer, Berlin Heidelberg 2000. ISBN 978-3-540-64100-1 .

translation

  • Handbook of Lasers in Medicine , Springer, Heidelberg 2000.

Web links

Commons : Hans Breuer  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ Rosie Breuer is the daughter of the doctor Klaus Berg, a Normanne from Berlin, a Saxon from Kiel and a Prussian from Greifswald.
  2. ↑ Hassi Bachbach is a well-known fountain, named after the sheep that drink there - "Brunnen Mähmäh".
  3. ↑ 1983 for the Börsenverein des Deutschen Buchhandels one of the 10 best science books.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Death Certificate, Department of Home Affairs, Somerset West, RSA, # 331023 5096 18 7
  2. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 149/362
  3. ↑ Diploma thesis :: A Range-Energy-Relation for Fast Electrons .
  4. ↑ Dissertation :: Spectrum of Photo Neutrons from Lead .
  5. ^ In memoriam Klaus Breuer
personal data
SURNAME Breuer, Hans
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Breuer, Hans Adolf (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-South African biophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH October 22, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main
DATE OF DEATH April 19, 2020
Place of death Somerset West , Western Cape