Klaus Junge (physicist)

Klaus Junge (born June 9, 1926 ) is a German physicist. He was the director of the Central Institute for Optics and Spectroscopy (ZOS) of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR .

Career

Junge received his doctorate in 1963 from Humboldt University in Berlin . From 1965 he headed the II. Physikalisch-Technische Institut (PTI), which u. a. worked on laser rangefinders for military use. In 1970 he became head of the new Central Institute for Optics and Spectroscopy (ZOS) in Berlin, which belonged to the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . In 1978 he received the National Prize of the GDR 2nd class and in 1987 the title of Outstanding Scientist of the People . After his retirement, Jung became a member of the Leibniz Society in 1993 . He lives in Königs Wusterhausen .

Fonts

• A contribution to adhesion term spectroscopy on cadmium sulfide. Dissertation, Berlin 1963, DNB 481870385 .
• with Witlof Brunner , Wolfgang Radloff: Quantum Electronics. An introduction to the physics of the laser. German Science Publishers, Berlin 1975.
• with Witlof Brunner: Laser technology. An introduction. Hüthig, Heidelberg 1982, ISBN 978-3-7785-0801-5 . 4th edition: Hüthig, Heidelberg 1989, ISBN 3-7785-1831-3 .

literature

• Manuel Schramm: Economy and science in GDR and FRG. The category trust in innovation processes. Böhlau, Cologne a. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-412-20174-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ^ Helmuth Albrecht: Military laser research in the GDR in the 1960s. In: Uwe Fraunholz u. a. (Ed.): Engineers in the technocratic state of the art. Festschrift for Thomas Hänseroth. Waxmann, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-8309-2771-6 , p. 250.
2. ↑ Member of the Leibniz Society ( Memento from December 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive )