Heinz Pick

Heinz Pick (born December 19, 1912 in Elberfeld , † September 20, 1983 in Schwäbisch Hall ) was a German solid-state physicist who was a professor at the University of Stuttgart .

Life

Pick studied physics at the University of Cologne , the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich and the University of Göttingen , where he received his doctorate in 1937 under Robert Wichard Pohl ( on the influence of temperature on the excitation of color centers ). During the Second World War he worked in industry in Kiel at Elac and then returned to Göttingen, where he completed his habilitation in 1948 and re-established the chair and solid-state research with Pohl and others. In 1954 he became a professor at the newly created chair for experimental physics at the Technical University of Stuttgart, which later became the university. Here he set up a center for solid state physics and was also involved in founding the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart.

He was a close associate of Pohl in color center research (formerly experimental solid state physics) and also worked on his famous textbook Introduction to Physics (he is shown on some of the silhouettes of experiments). After the war he continued his color center research and tried to introduce modern methods (like electron spin resonance ) right from the start at his chair in Stuttgart .

For many years he was Vice President of the German Research Foundation .

Most recently he was involved in a large international project on the history of solid state physics. With Fritz Stöckmann he coined the term defect electron .

Fonts

Introduction to solid state physics . Scientific Book Society, Darmstadt 1978.
Structure of impurities in alkali halide crystals (Springer Tracts in Modern Physics; 38), 1965.

literature

Dieter Landenberger: Pick, Heinz. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 419 f. ( Digitized version ).

Web links

Obituary in the Physikalische Blätter 1984 by HC Wolf, PDF file
Oral History Interview , AIP, 1982
Biographical notes by Robert Wichard Pohl, pdf , Universität Göttingen 2013, p. 20. With an interview by Pohl and Pick.

Individual evidence

↑ Lillian Hoddeson , Ernest Braun, Jürgen Teichmann, Spencer Weart (eds.): Out of the crystal maze. Chapters from the history of solid state physics . Oxford University Press, 1992 (mentioned in the foreword as a member of the German Advisory Board).

personal data
SURNAME	Pick, Heinz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH	December 19, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH	Elberfeld
DATE OF DEATH	20th September 1983
Place of death	Schwäbisch Hall

[1] Lillian Hoddeson , Ernest Braun, Jürgen Teichmann, Spencer Weart (eds.): Out of the crystal maze. Chapters from the history of solid state physics . Oxford University Press, 1992 (mentioned in the foreword as a member of the German Advisory Board).