Hermann A. House
Hermann Anton Haus (also Freiherr von Haus; * August 8, 1925 in Laibach , Kingdom of Yugoslavia ; † May 21, 2003 in Lexington ) was an American physicist. He made significant contributions in the field of quantum optics and noise .
biography
Haus was the son of the doctor Freiherr Otto Maximilian Haus and Helene Hynek. He was the grandson of Anton Haus , the only imperial Grand Admiral of the Austro-Hungarian Navy , who posthumously was knighted. He completed a humanistic high school in Ljubljana. As part of the expulsions under Josip Broz Tito , Haus and his mother had to leave Yugoslavia in 1945 and were deported to Austria. There he studied at the Graz University of Technology and later in Vienna . He came to America in 1948 and graduated from Union College in Schenectady with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1949 . 1951 followed the Master of Science at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and in 1954 the doctorate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Haus was married to Eleanor Laggis Haus († May 7, 2008) and had 4 children. He died of a heart attack on May 21, 2003.
Research and Teaching
Hermann Haus became a professor at MIT in 1962, where he has researched and taught ever since. His main research topic is the noise in communications components and systems. In the 1970s, Hermann Haus developed the theory of mode locking for lasers. In the 1980s he made a major contribution to the theory of optical solitons . This was followed by the discovery of the Gordon-Haus effect (with James P. Gordon ), the beginning of work on squeezed quantum states as well as application-oriented work on mode-locked fiber lasers and filters for the controlled use of the Gordon-Haus effect.
Memberships and honors
Haus was a member of renowned scientific societies and academies, for example
- American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Member 1981)
- National Academy of Sciences (member 1987)
- American Physical Society (Fellow 1991)
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
- Optical Society of America
He was the recipient of numerous scientific awards and prizes, among others
- Charles Hard Townes Award (1987)
- Frederic Ives Medal (1994)
- Ludwig Wittgenstein Prize (1997)
- National Medal of Science (1995)
- Willis E. Lamb Prize (2001)
Fonts
- Waves and Fields in Optoelectronics , Prentice Hall 1983
Web links
- Literature by and about Hermann A. Haus in the catalog of the German National Library
- Biography (English; PDF; 163 kB)
- Hermann Anton Haus Fund (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c d e MIT News Office: MIT Professor Hermann Haus dies at 77; What pioneer in optical communications
- ^ NYT online: Hermann A. Haus, 77, Leader in Optical Communications Research , May 27, 2003, last accessed on May 3, 2010
- ↑ see literature list in the obituary by Jeffrey H. Shapiro , Hermann Anton Haus, 1925–2003 , J. Opt. B: Quantum Semiclass. Opt. 6, 2004, p. 623 doi : 10.1088 / 1464-4266 / 6/8 / E02 .
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SURNAME | House, Hermann A. |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | House, Hermann Anton |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American physicist |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 8, 1925 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Laibach |
DATE OF DEATH | May 21, 2003 |
Place of death | Lexington |