Karl Wildermuth

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Karl Wildermuth (born July 25, 1921 in Bad Cannstatt , † October 25, 2005 in Tübingen ) was a German physicist . From 1964 until his retirement in 1989, Wildermuth was professor for theoretical physics at the Eberhard Karls University in Tübingen .

education

After graduating from high school in 1939, Wildermuth studied physics at the Technical University of Munich . After completing his intermediate diploma in 1941, he was drafted into the Navy , but was not used in the war, but was released to study meteorology at the Humboldt University in Berlin . There he met his later doctoral supervisor Werner Heisenberg , who enabled him to study physics in addition to meteorology. After the end of the war, he was able to take the state examination in mathematics and physics at the Georg-August University of Göttingen in 1946 and receive his doctorate in 1949 under Werner Heisenberg. This was followed by two years of assistantship at the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Göttingen and one year at the Institute for Mathematics and Mechanics in New York. Three more years of assistantship with Fritz Bopp at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich then led to his habilitation in 1954. After research stays with Niels Bohr in Copenhagen and at CERN in Geneva, he was appointed professor at Florida State University in Tallahassee in 1959 . In 1964 he accepted a call as a full professor for theoretical physics at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . In 1989 Wildermuth retired.

Research activity

During his time in Geneva, Wildermuth was already concerned with the unification of the theoretical models of the atomic nucleus . Based on a model by John Archibald Wheeler , he developed the so-called cluster model. The further development of the cluster model and its application to many problems in nuclear physics occupy him and numerous employees during his time in Tallahasse and Tübingen. For his scientific achievements he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz .

Services

Together with Walter McClure, Wildermuth published the monograph “Cluster Representations of Nuclei”. He described his unification of atomic nucleus models, together with YC Tang, in the monograph "A Unified Theory of the Nucleus". Wildermuth is the author of numerous refereed publications and conference contributions.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Amand Fäßler and Erich Schmid: Obituary Karl Wildermuth. In: Physics Journal. Volume 5, 2006, number 1, p. 53 ([www.pro-physik.de/details/articlePdf/1106183/issue.html PDF; 64.8 KB]).
  2. ^ Walter McClure, Karl Wildermuth: Cluster Representations of Nuclei (= Springer Tracts in Modern Physics. Volume 41). Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 1966, ISBN 978-3-540-34868-9 .
  3. ^ Karl Wildermuth, YC Tang: A Unified Theory of the Nucleus. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1977, ISBN 978-3-322-85255-7 .
personal data
SURNAME Wildermuth, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Cannstatt
DATE OF DEATH October 25, 2005
Place of death Tübingen