Hugo Neuert

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Hugo Neuert (born March 1, 1912 in Mannheim ; † July 23, 1989 in Schwetzingen ) was a German experimental nuclear physicist (nuclear physics instruments, low energy nuclear physics).

biography

Neuert studied physics in Stuttgart, Munich and Leipzig, where he received his doctorate in 1935 under Fritz Kirchner (dissertation: Range measurements of the debris of some light elements when bombarded with fast protons ), which he followed to Cologne, where he completed his habilitation in 1939. During the Second World War he did military service as a meteorologist and from 1944 was a private lecturer in Strasbourg with Rudolf Fleischmann .

After being a prisoner of war, he was employed at the French research institute Saint-Louis from 1947 to 1950 , where he was able to deal with nuclear physics research that was otherwise prohibited in post-war Germany. From 1948 he taught at the University of Freiburg, before he went as a lecturer at the University of Hamburg in 1950 (where Fleischmann brought him) and was there in 1951 as an adjunct professor, in 1955 as an extraordinary and in 1957 as a full professor.

From 1959 to 1969 he was director of the I. Institute for Experimental Physics at the State Physical Institute and from 1969 to 1972 and 1974 to 1977 director of the I. Institute for Experimental Physics at the University (and from 1959 also acting director of the Institute for Physical Chemistry). He built electrostatic accelerators for neutron generation and nuclear spectroscopy and nuclear reactions on light atomic nuclei with the help of a 2 MeV Van-de-Graaff generator . From 1968 he headed the isochronous cyclotron laboratory at DESY . There he mainly investigated small nucleon systems and compound nucleus reactions induced by neutrons . He also dealt with applications such as the generation of short-lived radionuclides for medicine and biological research and most recently dealt with the interaction of ions and molecules (determination of electron binding energies, reactions when negative ions collide with molecules, development of lithium ion sources, chemiluminescence). From 1965 to 1967 he was Dean of the Faculty of Natural Sciences.

In 1980 he retired, but continued to research.

Fonts

  • with Ewald Fünfer : Counter tubes and scintillation counters, Karlsruhe: Braun, 1954, 2nd edition 1959
  • Nuclear physics measuring methods for the detection of particles and quanta, Karlsruhe: Braun 1966
  • Experimental physics for physicians, dentists, pharmacists, biologists, BI Wissenschaftsverlag 1969
  • Physics for natural scientists, 3 volumes, BI Wissenschaftsverlag 1977, 1978, 2nd edition in two volumes 1989, 1991 (Volume 1 Mechanics and Thermal Science, Volume 2 Electricity and Magnetism, Optics, Volume 3 Atomic Physics, Nuclear Physics)

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SURNAME Neuert, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Mannheim
DATE OF DEATH July 23, 1989
Place of death Schwetzingen