Hans Wolter

This article describes a physicist. For the church historian of the same name, see Hans Wolter (church historian) .

Hans Wolter (born May 11, 1911 in Dramburg , Pomerania , † August 17, 1978 in Marburg ) was a German physicist .

Act

Hans Wolter worked alone and with students theoretically and experimentally on a large number of problems in applied physics. Especially at work on optical thin metal layers, phase contrast microscopy , microwave - antennas , streaks procedures and in the field of information theory . He designed a physical theory of color .

In 1952 Wolter published a work in which he describes imaging mirror systems for X-rays using total reflection when grazing incidence on metal surfaces. Conceived by Wolter himself for microscopic applications, the systems he calculated were widely used as Wolter telescopes in X-ray astronomy .

Life

Hans Wolter studied physics in Tübingen and Kiel from 1929 to 1933. He then taught at grammar schools from 1933 to 1939 and worked on broadband antennas for the Reichsmarine's communications test command from 1939 to 1945 . After the end of the war, he founded his own laboratory in 1945, went to Kiel University as a lecturer in 1947 and followed a call to Marburg University in 1955 . There he was a full professor and founded the Institute for Applied Physics. He retired in 1976 and died in August 1978, shortly before the launch of the Einstein Observatory satellite, which was equipped with a Wolter telescope .

Sources and literature

• Ulrich Gradmann: On the death of Hans Wolter (obituary) in Physikalische Blätter , vol. 35, booklet 4, page 157f.