Helmut Lotsch

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Helmut Karl Valentin Lotsch (born February 26, 1933 in Bretten ) is a German electrical engineer and publishing manager. He was a physics planner at Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York from 1972 to 1998 and during this time also founded and externally published the Springer journals Applied Physics , which he divided into series A and B in 1981.

Career

Lotsch studied at the TH Karlsruhe (now called Karlsruhe Institute of Technology , KIT) and graduated from Horst Rothe in 1953 on the subject of "cross modulation in transistors".

He worked in television picture tube development at Telefunken in Ulm . In 1961 he was awarded the Rudolf Judgment Prize of the Television and Kinotechnical Society (FKTG) for his research on the steep TV picture tube .

In 1961 Lotsch went to the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena for two years on a NATO scholarship and then went to Stanford University for another year . In 1962 he obtained a Master of Science degree from Caltech . After that, Lotsch worked in the Californian industry for more years.

Starting from a lecture at Stanford University in 1964, Lotsch contributed constructively and critically to the writing of the highly regarded textbook by JW Goodman.

In 1963 the company Telefunken in Ulm received the German patent 1 193 166 on the basic principle of laser color television , laser TV , and laser shows in general, in which Lotsch is named as the inventor.

In 1970 Lotsch did his doctorate under Walter L. Engl and Josef Meixner in the electrical engineering department at RWTH Aachen University ( The beam displacement in total reflection : the Goos-Hänchen effect ).

In 1972 Lotsch came to Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York as a planner and has consequently built up an English-language physics program. Since the journal for applied physics had just closed on December 31, 1971, he initially designed and founded the journal Applied Physics . Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg New York introduced Applied Physics with Lotsch as external publisher in 1973 as a completely new (without reference to an earlier journal) medium with the shortest possible publication times for an international authorship. After successful development, Lotsch, as editor-in-chief of Applied Physics, divided it into the series Applied Physics A (Solids and Surfaces) and Applied Physics B (Photophysics and Laser Chemistry) in 1981 and continued it up to volumes 61A and 61B in 1995.

With the experience he gained as an Applied Physics editor, Lotsch created access to the international specialist world for the publisher in order to build up a diversified book program with the aim of quick publication at the highest scientific level. In cooperation with internationally renowned scientists - including various Nobel Prize winners - he has founded and supervised several book series: For quasi-monographs Topics in Applied Physics and Topics in Current Physics and for monographs and conference reports relevant to the topic, the Springer series with the titles Springer Series Chemical Physics , Springer Series in Electrophysics , Springer Series in Electronics and Photonics , Springer Series in Information Sciences , Springer Series in Material Sciences , Springer Series in NanoScience and Technology , Springer Series Optical Sciences , Springer Series in Solid-State Sciences (in close Collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart), Springer Series in Surface Sciences , Springer Series on Atoms and Plasmas (today Springer Series on Atomic, Optical, and Plasma Physics ), and Springer Series on Wave Phenomena . Textbooks were also added, some of which were translated and published in several languages.

In 1998 Helmut Lotsch received the medal for scientific journalism from the German Physical Society (DPG). He received the award for his internationally respected, extensive publishing activities for numerous magazines and book series he founded (laudation).

In cooperation with the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing, Lotsch founded the Letter Journal Chinese Physics Letters ; the first magazine published in China in English without prior publication in Chinese.

In 1976 Lotsch was made a Fellow of the Optical Society of America and in 1981 a Fellow of the American Physical Society . In 1999 Lotsch received the OSA Leadership Award / New Focus Prize from the Optical Society of America.

In 1978 Lotsch was delegated by the German National Committee for Physics to the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP) and was secretary (1978 to 1984) and chairman (1984 to 1987) of the IUPAP Commission C6 on Publications . From 1980 to 1987 Lotsch was a member of the publications committee of the European Physical Society (EPS).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ William Buchge: Springer-Verlag: Catalog of His journals from 1843 to 1992 . Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-57972-1 , p. 7 .
  2. ↑ Helmut KV Lotsch. In: Prabook. Retrieved February 25, 2020 .
  3. ↑ H. Lotsch: Overview of the nonlinear distortion in transistors, including the cross modulation. In: Arch. Trans. Volume 14, 1969, pp. 204-216.
  4. ↑ HKV Lotsch: Theory of nonlinear distortions produced in a semiconductor diode . In: IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices . tape 15 , no. 5 , May 1968, p. 294-307 , doi : 10.1109 / T-ED.1968.16181 .
  5. ↑ E. Gundert, H. Lotsch: About the development of a steep television picture tube with a negative parallel wire control grid directly in front of the cathode. In: Telefunken newspaper. Volume 33, Nos. 127 and 129, March and September 1960 and in: Telefunken tube. Issue 40, 1961.
  6. ↑ HKV Lotsch: The scalar theory for optical resonators and beam waveguides. In: Optics. Volume 26, 1967, pp. 112-130.
  7. ↑ HKV Lotsch: The confocal resonator system I. In: Optics. Volume 30, 1969, pp. 1-14.
  8. ↑ HKV Lotsch: The confocal resonator system II. In: Optics. Volume 30, 1969, pp. 181-201.
  9. ↑ HKV Lotsch: The confocal resonator system III. In: Optics. Volume 30, 1970, pp. 217-233
  10. ↑ HKV Lotsch: The confocal resonator system IV. In: Optics. Volume 30, No. 6, 1970, pp. 563-576.
  11. ↑ HKV Lotsch: The Fabry-Perot resonator. Part I. In: Optics. Volume 28, 1968, pp. 65-75.
  12. ↑ HKV Lotsch: The Fabry-Perot resonator. Part II. In: Optics. Volume 28, 1969, pp. 328-345.
  13. ↑ HKV Lotsch: The Fabry-Perot resonator. Part III. In: Optics. Volume 28, 1969, pp. 555-574.
  14. ↑ HKV Lotsch: The Fabry-Perot resonator. Part IV. In: Optics. Volume 29, 1969, pp. 130-145.
  15. ↑ HKV Lotsch: The Fabry-Perot resonator. Part V. In: Optics. Volume 29, 1969, pp. 622-623.
  16. ↑ HKV Lotsch: The Fabry-Perot interferometer as an antenna problem . In: Proceedings of the IEEE . tape 53 , no. 4 , April 1965, p. 398-399 , doi : 10.1109 / PROC.1965.3765 .
  17. ↑ HKV Lotsch: Physical-optics theory of planar dielectric waveguides . In: Optics . tape 27 , no. 4 , 1968, p. 239-254 .
  18. ↑ HKV Lotsch, WC Davis: The Lensing Effect of CO2 Laser Plasma . In: Applied Optics . tape 9 , no. 12 , December 1, 1970, pp. 2725-2728 , doi : 10.1364 / AO.9.002725 .
  19. ^ Joseph W. Goodman: Introduction to Fourier Optics. McGraw-Hill, San Francisco 1968.
  20. ↑ Patent DE1193166 : Optical transmitter for at least two color components. Published on May 20, 1965 , inventor: Helmut KV Lotsch. ‌
  21. ↑ HKV Lotsch, F. Schröter: The laser color television . In: Laser . tape 2 , 1970, p. 37-39 .
  22. ↑ Helmut K. solder: Beam Displacement at Total Reflection: The Goos-Hänchen Effect I . In: Optics . tape 32 , no. 2 , 1970, ISSN  0030-4026 , pp. 116-137 .
  23. ↑ Helmut KV Lotsch: Beam Displacement at Total Reflection: The Goos-Hänchen Effect II . In: Optics . tape 32 , 1970, ISSN  0030-4026 , pp. 189-204 .
  24. ↑ Helmut KV Lotsch: Beam displacement at Total reflection: The Goos-Hänchen effect III . In: Optics . tape 32 , no. 4 , 1971, ISSN  0030-4026 , p. 299-319 .
  25. ↑ Helmut KV Lotsch: Beam Displacement at Total Reflection: The Goos-Hänchen Effect IV . In: Optics . tape 32 , no. 6 , 1971, ISSN  0030-4026 , p. 553-569 .
  26. ↑ Helmut KV Lotsch: Reflection and Refraction of a Beam of Light at a Plane Interface . In: JOSA . tape 58 , no. 4 , April 1, 1968, pp. 551-561 , doi : 10.1364 / JOSA.58.000551 .
  27. ↑ Heinz Götze: Der Springer-Verlag: Stations of His History Part 2: 1945-1992. Springer, 2008, p. 331 (with photo).
  28. ↑ Heinz Götze: Der Springer-Verlag: Stations of His History Part 2: 1945-1992. Springer, 2008, p. 332ff.
  29. ↑ Elections to the DPG board / short minutes of the meetings of the board and board of directors at the 63rd physics conference in Heidelberg / minutes of the 1999 ordinary general meeting / New Journal of Physics / short minutes of the members' meeting of the German vacuum society / list of applicants / conference calendar / annual report 1998: Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft e. V. (DPG) Organization overview 1999/2000: Status: June 1999: Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft e. V. (DPG) . In: Physical sheets . tape 55 , no. 7–8 , 1999, pp. 100–210, here p. 153 , doi : 10.1002 / phbl.19990550722 .
personal data
SURNAME Lotsch, Helmut
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lotsch, Helmut Karl Valentin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German electrical engineer and publishing manager
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Boards