Hermann Ebert (physicist, 1896)

Hermann Ebert (born June 18, 1896 in Göttingen , † April 26, 1983 in Braunschweig ) was a German physicist.

Ebert studied physics in Göttingen (where James Franck , Peter Debye and David Hilbert were among his teachers) and received his doctorate in 1920 from Debye with a dissertation on spectral line broadening. From 1921 he was at the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt as an employee of Karl Scheel . There he dealt with different metrological areas (first thermometry, thermal expansion, humidity measurement, then high pressure physics, vacuum technology, gas flow at low pressure). He had his own laboratory, moved to Weida with the PTR in 1943 , was head of the heat and pressure department at the newly established Office for Weights and Measures there after the war and went to PTB in Braunschweig in 1950. Most recently, he was head of the legal-for-trade measuring devices sub-department. In 1961 he retired.

For decades he worked closely with the Physical Reports founded by Scheel in 1919, and from 1929 as a member of the editorial team. In 1950 he rebuilt the reports at PTB.

He published new editions of the practical physics by Kohlrausch (1955, 1960, with Eduard Justi ) and the Physikalische Taschenbuch as well as the series Vieweg Collection and Process and Measurement Science . He wrote a biography of Hermann von Helmholtz . In 1977 his history of vacuum technology appeared until 1927, about which he also previously published vacuum technology reports and the series of progress in vacuum technology .

From 1951 to 1963 he was managing director of the German Physical Society and in 1963 he became an honorary member.

He should not be confused with the physicist Hermann Ebert (1861–1913) of the same name .

Fonts

• The thermal expansion of solid and liquid substances, procedural and measuring science in natural science, Springer, 1940
• Hermann von Helmholtz, Stuttgart 1949
• Vacuum Chronicle, 3 volumes, 1977
• Publisher: Physikalisches Taschenbuch, 5th edition, Vieweg 1978

literature

• Obituary by W. Hauser, Physikalische Blätter, Volume 89, 1983, p. 300, pdf

References and comments

1. ↑ 1978 transferred to the specialist information system energy, physics, mathematics in Karlsruhe