Heinz Bethge

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Heinz Bethge (born November 15, 1919 in Magdeburg ; † May 9, 2001 in Halle / Saale ) was a German physicist.

Life

Bethge studied physics at the Technical University of Berlin (today TU Berlin ) . Since he was drafted into the military, he could not finish his studies in Magdeburg until the end of the war . He received his doctorate in 1954 from the University of Halle and completed his habilitation there in 1959.

The following year he was appointed professor . As such, Bethge founded the Electron Microscopy Laboratory of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . In 1968 this position was converted to the Institute for Solid State Physics and Electron Microscopy , of which he was director until 1984. After 1990, this institute became the Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics and the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials , today the Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems IMWS.

In 1969 Bethge became a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR and in 1972 became a full member. Since 1964 he was a member of the Leopoldina (German Academy of Natural Scientists). Here he was elected in 1974 to succeed Kurt Mothes as their president. He held this office for 16 years and gave it back in 1990. His successor was the botanist Benno Parthier . In 1978 he was accepted as a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1987 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences .

The Imaging Surface analysis is closely related to Bethge's name. He researched processes on solid surfaces and their fundamental real structure. Bethge's work on questions of adsorption and epitaxy at interfaces and thin layers has always been taken up in applied research.

Heinz Bethge's grave in Halle's Stadtgottesacker

Bethge's grave is located in the city of Halle .

Honors

Works (selection)

  • Electron microscopy in solid state physics. Springer, Berlin a. a. 1982, ISBN 3-540-11361-4 .
  • Electron microscopy in solid state physics. Elsevier, Amsterdam 1987, ISBN 0-444-98967-6 .

literature

Web links

Notes and individual references

  1. ↑ Heinz Bethge: Development and construction of a laboratory electron microscope and application of electron microscopy to questions about the real construction of rock salt. Dissertation. Math.-natural science Faculty, Halle 1954.
  2. ↑ Heinz Bethge: Electron microscopic investigations into the structure of rock salt cleavage surfaces. Habilitation thesis. Math.-natural science Faculty, Halle 1959.
  3. ↑ member entry of Heinz Bethge at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences , accessed on January 3, 2017th
  4. ^ List of members . In: Yearbook of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . tape 2000 , 2001, pp. 28 .
  5. ↑ Founding event . In: bethge-stiftung.de. Retrieved February 22, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Bethge, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Magdeburg
DATE OF DEATH May 9, 2001
Place of death Halle (Saale)