Hubert Kruger

Hubert Krüger (born January 16, 1914 in Stettin ; † September 23, 2002 ) was a German physicist , professor of experimental physics and long-time director of the Physics Institute of the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen .

Life

Krüger received his doctorate in 1939 from the Technical University of Berlin under Hans Kopfermann . He did military service , worked at Siemens under the direction of Gustav Hertz, and after being captured by England in 1945, he became Kopfermann's assistant in Göttingen . There he worked on high-frequency spectroscopic methods for the investigation of nuclear moments . In doing so, theoretically discovered and treated nuclear quadrupole resonance . After his habilitation in 1951, he devoted himself to high-frequency spectroscopy of excited atomic states and determined with colleagues, in Göttingen and from 1953 as a lecturer in Heidelberg - electrical nuclear quadrupole moments from the hyperfine structure of excited atoms.

In 1956, Krüger took over from Walther Kossel as the holder of the chair for experimental physics at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen , where he became director of the Physics Institute. In addition to spectroscopy , he expanded his field of activity to other areas of atomic physics (atomic impact processes and brake X-ray radiation ). In 1982 Krüger retired.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ CV. In: Hubert Krüger: About the enrichment of the N15 isotope and some spectroscopic investigations on the N15: Dissertation to achieve the dignity of a doctor engineer . Springer-Verlag, 2013, p. 475. doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-662-42320-2
2. ↑ On the enrichment of the N15 isotope and some spectroscopic investigations on the N15 , thesis TeH. Berlin, 1939 ( DNB 570502756 )
3. ↑ Max Baumann: On the death of Hubert Krüger. In: Physik Journal 2 (2003), No. 3, p. 74.