Karl-Heinz Lauterjung

Karl-Heinz Lauterjung (born May 10, 1914 in Leichlingen (Rhineland) , † March 29, 2000 ) was a German nuclear physicist.

Life

Lauterjung studied in Bonn, Munich and Cologne. In 1941 he was with the theme of "some elements for slow neutrons over the cross section" in Cologne doctorate . He then worked as an assistant and later as a private lecturer at the University of Cologne with Fritz Kirchner .

From 1954 to 1956 he worked as a scientific department head at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics in Heidelberg and was its acting director from 1957 to 1960. In 1959 he was a professor at the newly created Department of Nuclear Physics at the University of Cologne appointed and was also the director and founder of the Institute for Nuclear Physics. From 1963 to 1964 he was dean of the mathematics and science faculty. In 1982 he retired.

Lauterjung became internationally with neutrino - recoil experiments in the beta decay of the core ⁸ Li announced that have been carried out for the first time under his leadership in Europe. Lauterjung derived the type of coupling of the beta decay from the angular distribution of the alpha particles during the decay of the ⁸ Be nucleus relative to the direction of the electron. This result indirectly led to the determination of the helicity of the antineutrino . The result achieved is still valid today.

Web links

• Literature by and about Karl-Heinz Lauterjung in the catalog of the German National Library