Karl Friedrich Alexander

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Karl Friedrich Alexander (born May 1, 1925 in Berlin ; † May 10, 2017 ) was a German nuclear physicist . The GDR national prize winner was a professor at the universities in Dresden and Leipzig from 1959 to 1990 .

Life

After graduating from high school , the son of a lawyer, Karl Friedrich Alexander, did an internship at Siemens & Halske in 1942 . He was then drafted into the Reich Labor Service and then for military service and used as a radio operator in World War II . In August 1944 he was taken prisoner by the French . After the end of the war he returned to Germany and studied physics in Berlin from 1946 . In 1947 Alexander joined the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED) and continued his studies in Göttingen , where he was a member of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD). In 1951, he put the Max Planck Institute for Physics his diploma , and then moved into the Democratic Republic of German (GDR) on.

In 1954 Alexander received his doctorate from the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 1955 he was involved in setting up the Center for Nuclear Research (ZfK) in Rossendorf near Dresden . In 1955/56 he took part in a reactor course at the Institute for Atomic Energy at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR . In 1959 he became a professor at the Technical University of Dresden, then headed the reactor technology and neutron physics department at the ZfK, and from 1961 to 1965 was also a professor with a teaching position for nuclear physics at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig. From 1966 to 1969, Alexander was deputy laboratory director at the nuclear research center in Dubna in the Soviet Union . From 1970 to 1988 he was director of the Central Institute for Electron Physics of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . From 1973 to 1992 he was a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR.

From 1970 to 1980 Alexander was a member of the editorial team of the Soviet magazine "Physics of Elementary Particles and Atomic Nuclei". From 1981 to 1990 he was a member, from 1984 Secretary of the International Commission on Plasma Physics of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics (IUPAP). From 1986 to 1989 Alexander was a member of the editorial board of the “European Journal of Physics”. In addition, Alexander published numerous works on the subjects of nuclear and plasma physics and thermal diffusion . He has published more than 80 scientific publications in specialist journals and compilations. For his work on the plasma-wall interaction, Alexander received the National Prize, 2nd class, for science and technology of the GDR in 1986. When he reached the age limit, he ended his university career in 1990. After the dissolution of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR, Alexander was one of the founding members of the Leibniz Society . He died on May 10, 2017 at the age of 92.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Interview with Karl Friedrich Alexander on: www.club-carriere.com , 2015.
  2. ^ Eternal directory of members of the Leibniz Society , Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin eV
  3. ↑ Nekrolog to our member Prof. Dr. Karl Friedrich Alexander. Leibniz-Sozietät , May 24, 2017, accessed on May 25, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Alexander, Karl Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German nuclear physicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 1, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH May 10, 2017