Harry E. Petschek
Harry Ewald Petschek (* 1930 in Prague ; † March 29, 2005 in Lexington (Massachusetts) ) was an American physicist .
Life
Harry Ewald Petschek was the son of Hans Petschek (1895–1968) and Eva Neumann Petschek (1901–1993). The family belonged to the Prager Line of the Petschek entrepreneurial dynasty , who all left Central Europe between 1934 and 1937 and moved to the USA. He grew up in Hartsdale, New York and studied applied physics at Cornell University . In 1955 he did his doctorate under Arthur Kantrowitz ( Approach to equilibrium ionization behind strong shock waves in argon ). With Kantrowitz and other scientists, Petschek successfully developed heat shields for space capsules at the Avco Everett Research Laboratory for NASA during the Sputnik shock (1959). He became vice president and eventually president of Avco.
In 1963 Harry E. Petschek further developed the theory of reconnection by Eugene Parker and Peter Alan Sweet with application, for example, to the acceleration of particles in the solar corona and the aurora borealis . At Avco, he later led the development of an intra-aortic balloon pump . After leaving Avco, Petschek founded the companies OmniFlow and Autogen. Among other things, they developed medical devices such as an infusion pump for supplying patients and a device for extracting DNA .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Petschek. Encyclopaedia Judaica, accessed May 18, 2020.
- ↑ Petschek, Magnetic Field Annihilation, in: The Physics of Solar Flares, Proceedings of the AAS-NASA Symposium held October 28-30, 1963 at the Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, 1964, p. 425
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Petschek, Harry E. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Petschek, Harry Ewald |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1930 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Prague |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 29, 2005 |
| Place of death | Lexington, Massachusetts |