Josef Stuke

Josef Stuke (born May 26, 1918 in Lastrup near Cloppenburg , † March 25, 2010 in Marburg ) was a German experimental solid-state physicist who dealt with semiconductor physics.

From 1941 Stuke studied physics at the TU Hannover with a diploma in 1944. He then went to the Georg-August University in Göttingen , where he received his doctorate in 1947 under Robert Wichard Pohl . In his dissertation (on the self-conduction of electronic semiconductors), he demonstrated the self-conduction in germanium. He had already come to the result in measurements that he had carried out since the beginning of 1944, but his results were initially not accepted by Pohl. The discovery was then made independently in the USA ( Frederick Seitz at the University of Pennsylvania, Karl Lark-Horovitz at Purdue University) and when news about it came to Germany, Pohl admitted his mistake and accepted the dissertation. After completing his doctorate, Stuke worked in industry before becoming a scientific adviser at the Institute for Applied Physics at the TH Karlsruhe in 1962 . In 1964 he completed his habilitation there on the electronic properties of trigonal selenium. In 1967 he became a full professor for experimental physics at the Philipps University of Marburg , where he retired in 1983. In Marburg he dealt with amorphous semiconductors, among other things. He worked there with the theorist Otfried Madelung and also with Nevill Mott .

In 1986 he received the Max Born Prize .

Web links

• Peter Thomas : History and Present of Physics at the Philipps University of Marburg (2001)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ernest Braun Selected topics from the history of semiconductor physics and its applications , in Lillian Hoddeson u. a. (Ed.) Out of the crystal maze , Oxford University Press 1992, p. 458