Harry Paul (physicist)

Harry Paul

Harry Paul (born February 11, 1931 in Tyssa , Czechoslovakia ) is a German physicist and professor emeritus. His fields of work are laser theory , nonlinear optics and quantum optics .

Live and act

In the summer of 1945 Harry Paul and his family were relocated to Germany, and from 1949 he studied physics in Rostock and Jena . After graduating with a diploma in 1955, he worked as an assistant at the Theoretical-Physical Institute at the University of Jena . He received his doctorate in 1958 and then worked as an employee at the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . In 1964 he received his habilitation and in 1978 he was appointed academy professor. After German reunification, he headed the non-classical radiation working group of the Max Planck Society at the Humboldt University in Berlin from 1992 , where he was appointed professor for theoretical physics in 1993. He stayed there until his retirement.

Publications (selection)

• Laser theory I and II. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1969, license no. 202.100 / 423/69 and 202.100 / 527/69
• Nonlinear Optics I and II. Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1969 License no. 202.100 / 438/73 and 202.100 / 439/73
• Photons: An Introduction to Quantum Optics. BG Teubner, Stuttgart 1995, ISBN 3-519-03222-8 ( Introduction to Quantum Optics. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2004, ISBN 0-521-83563-1 )
• Lexicon of Optics I and II. (Ed.) Spectrum Akademischer Verlag, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-8274-0382-0 and ISBN 3-8274-0383-9
• About physicists and their profession. Shaker, Aachen 2005, ISBN 3-8322-4549-9
• Introduction to Quantum Theory. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2008, ISBN 978-0-521-87693-3
• Some thoughts. Shaker Media, Aachen 2011, ISBN 978-3-86858-641-1

supporting documents

• Short vita in photons , Teubner study book, 1995, [1]
• List of publications by Prof. Harry Paul, 2012; see also [2]

Web links

• Literature by and about Harry Paul in the catalog of the German National Library