Horst Meyer (physicist)
Johannes Horst Max Meyer (born March 1, 1926 in Berlin ; † August 14, 2016 in Durham , North Carolina ) was a Swiss low-temperature physicist .
Meyer was the son of the surgeon Arthur Woldemar Meyer in Berlin and the grandson of the pharmacologist Hans Horst Meyer . After Arthur's sudden death in 1933, he was adopted by the German-Baltic chemist Kurt Heinrich Meyer , Arthur's brother, and grew up in Switzerland from 1932. After graduating from the Collège Jean Calvin in Geneva in 1944, he studied physics at the University of Geneva and University of Zurich with a doctorate in 1953. Klaus Clusius was his mentor in Zurich. As a post-doctoral student and Nuffield Fellow he worked at the University of Oxford in the Clarendon Laboratory , was from 1957 lecturer at Harvard University and from 1959 first assistant professor and later professor at Duke University (the former place of work of Fritz London ), where he In 1984 Fritz London became professor and in 2004 he retired.
He was visiting professor at the Technical University of Munich (1965), the University of Tokyo, at the Toyota Technical Institute in Nagoya and in 1974 and 1975 at the Laue-Langevin Institute in Grenoble. From 1992 he was editor of the Journal of Low Temperature Physics. In 1988 he was a visiting scholar at the Russian Academy of Sciences .
He is concerned with experimental low-temperature physics , including the investigation of magnetism (magnetic insulators), beta-quinone clathrates , solid and liquid helium , solid hydrogen (and deuterium ) and various phase transitions such as the order-disorder phase transition in solid hydrogen, the superfluid transition in 4 He and mixtures of 3 He and 4 He and the gas-liquid transition. He also examined the Rayleigh-Bénard convection with 3 He. The list of his publications as well as his former doctoral students and employees can be found in his web link.
In 1993 he received the Fritz London Memorial Award and in 1982 the Jesse W. Beams Award of the American Physical Society , of which he has been a fellow since 1970. From 1961 to 1965 he was a Sloan Research Fellow . In 2014 he received the "University Medal" from Duke University . One of his PhD students, Robert C. Richardson , shared the 1996 Nobel Prize in Physics with Douglas D. Osheroff and David M. Lee for the discovery of superfluidity in 3 He. Another PhD student, Arthur Brooks Harris , received the Lars Onsager Prize in 2007 for his theoretical work in solid state physics.
In 1953 he married Ruth Mary Hunter (deceased in 2013) and had a son, Christopher, who is a physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST ).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ World Who's Who in Science. 1968, p. 1170.
- ↑ Life data according to American Men and Women of Science , Thomson Gale 2004, and the CV on his homepage
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meyer, Horst |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Meyer, Johannes Horst Max (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 1, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 14, 2016 |
| Place of death | Durham, North Carolina |