Konrad Unger (physicist)
Konrad Unger (born June 7, 1934 in Leipzig ; † August 1, 2014 there ) was a German physicist.
Life
After attending school in Grimma and Nossen , Unger studied physics at the University of Leipzig from 1952 . After graduating with Gustav Hertz in 1959, he received his doctorate in 1963 with a dissertation on the electronic properties of cadmium sulfide . The habilitation followed in 1969 with a thesis on the theory of laser diodes. In 1970 he was appointed university lecturer and in 1975 professor for solid state physics .
Interdisciplinarity was important to him, and the collaboration between physicists, chemists, physico-chemists and crystallographers was intensively promoted. In 1968 he was one of the initiators of the working group “Physics and Chemistry of III-V Semiconductors at Leipzig University”, which developed as a pioneering interdisciplinary center for semiconductor research in the GDR. Until 1993, he regularly ran A3-B5 semiconductor fall schools.
As a member of a research collective in the Chemistry and Physics section of the Karl Marx University in Leipzig, Unger received the GDR III National Prize in 1972 . Class of Science and Technology for an electro-optical distance measuring device. In 1988 he received the Gustav Hertz Prize from the Karl Marx University in Leipzig . After the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1992 he was appointed “Professor of New Law” at the University of Leipzig. Initially head of the physics department, Unger was Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences until 1993.
Konrad Unger, married twice, was the father of two sons (Christian and Stephan Unger) and a daughter (Katrin Unger, 1960–1999) and found his burial place in the Gohlis cemetery.
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| SURNAME | Unger, Konrad |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 7, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Leipzig |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 1, 2014 |
| Place of death | Leipzig |