Jost Lemmerich

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At the opening of an exhibition, TU Berlin Oct. 2008; Photo: Thilo Rückeis

Jost Lemmerich (born June 7, 1929 in Berlin ; † March 21, 2018 there ) was a German physicist and historian of science who mainly organized numerous exhibitions on the history of science in physics in the 20th century.

Life

At the end of the war, the 15-year-old was drafted into the Volkssturm and wounded. His older brother had already died in the war, and then his father too. He was able to finish school with the Abitur in the post-war period. His father had been at Siemens, so Jost Lemmerich began working there too, in a chemistry laboratory. Made possible by the company, he studied physics at the Technical University of Berlin between 1956 and 1962 . After working again at Siemens, in 1970 he moved to the German and then to the European Patent Office in Berlin. There, and later more intensively after his retirement, he began to deal with the history of physics and its public presentation. He organized over 20 exhibitions, including at the Berlin State Library and the Deutsches Museum in Munich. It all started in 1977 with the exhibition on "The Physics of the Twenties" when the "Trends of the Twenties" were shown in Berlin. Later he became a Fellow of Churchill College of Cambridge University , where he at Churchill Archives Center Lise Meitner worked discount. From this estate he edited her correspondence with Max von Laue and Elisabeth Schiemann .

As an author, Lemmerich wrote several biographies in addition to catalogs for his exhibitions and individual articles on scientific history.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • The Physics of the Twenties, for the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft , exhibited in 1977 in the administration building of Siemens AG, Berlin, with catalog, introduction by HJ Queisser
  • Memorial exhibition for the 100th birthday of Albert Einstein, Lise Meitner, Otto Hahn, Max von Laue, 1979 Berlin State Library, then in Kaiserslautern and Beijing, catalog with KH Boeters
  • Documents on the establishment of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society and the Max Planck Society for the Advancement of Science, exhibition in the State Library of Prussian Cultural Heritage, Berlin 1981
  • Man and automation: historical aspects, exhibition in a factory hall, Osloer Straße 12, Berlin, 1984 with catalog
  • A Brief Review of the History of Physics in Berlin, from the beginnings until 1933, on the occasion of the “13th Internat. Conf. on Electronics & Atomic Collisions “, North-Holland Publ. 1984, brochure; 1983 and expanded in 1987 as a permanent exhibition for the Faculty of Physics at the Free University of Berlin
  • Measure and measure - exhibition on the occasion of the establishment of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt on March 28, 1887 - Berlin and Braunschweig 1987, Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt
  • The story of the discovery of nuclear fission  : Exhibitions at the Technical University of Berlin , December 2, 1988 - February 4, 1989, Deutsches Museum Munich, February 18, 1989 - August 10, 1989
  • 100 years of X-rays - exhibition on the occasion of the discovery of X-rays , Würzburg 1995, catalog German / English.
  • Exhibition for the 125th birthday of Lise Meitner (2003)
  • Justus Liebig : His time and our time. Chemistry - Agriculture - Nutrition, Giessen 2003, on the occasion of the Liebig year / year of chemistry
  • Exhibition on the history of physics at the TU Berlin (2009)
  • Hermann von Helmholtz : A trailblazer in scientific psychology, 2014 exhibition for the Adolf Würth Center for the History of Psychology at the University of Würzburg, together with A. Stock and with a catalog.

Books

  • Michael Faraday: 1791–1867, researcher of electricity, Munich: CH Beck Verlag, 1991
  • Friedrich II and the natural sciences, article in the "Yearbook of the Landesarchiv Berlin 1988", Ed. HJ Reichhardt, Berlin: Siedler Verl., 1988
  • Lise Meitner - Max von Laue: Correspondence 1938–1948, Berlin: ERS-Verl., 1998
  • Upright in the storm of time: The physicist James Franck, Diepholz: Verl. Für Geschichte der Naturwiss., 2007
    • Science and Conscience: The Life of James Franck, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2011
  • Bonds of friendship: Lise Meitner - Elisabeth Schiemann: Annotated correspondence 1911–1947, Vienna: Verl. Der Österr. Akad. Der Wiss., 2010
  • My dear son! Max von Laue's letters to his son Theodor in the United States of America 1937–1948, Berlin: ERS-Verl., 2011
  • Politics and advertising for science: The Harnack House of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for the Promotion of Science in Berlin-Dahlem, Rangsdorf: Basilisken-Presse, 2015
  • Hermann von Helmholtz: A trailblazer in scientific psychology, together with Armin Stock, Würzburg: Verl. Adolf-Würth-Center for the History of Psychology, University of Würzburg, 2014

Honors

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Naturwissenschaftliche Rundschau , Vol. 51, 1998, p. 226, J. Lemmerich, History of Science and Future Legacies
  2. ↑ Dipl.-Phys. Jost Lemmerich receives an honorary doctorate from the TU Berlin . Media information No. 239 (October 24, 1996) of the TU Berlin, accessed on July 19, 2011.
  3. ↑ Armin Stock: On the death of Jost Lemmerich. In: einBLICK - online magazine of the University of Würzburg. May 22, 2018, accessed May 2018 .
  4. ↑ Andreas Austilat: A critical rationalist. In: Tagesspiegel online. July 11, 2018, accessed July 2018 .
  5. ↑ R. Hahn u. a .: Obituary for Jost Lemmerich. In: Physik Journal 17 (2018) No. 7 p. 61. Retrieved July 2018 .
  6. ^ Jost Lemmerich: Lise Meitner's lectures in Berlin. In: Special issue "Humboldt Equal Opportunities" 6th year Nov. 2014 about Lise Meitner. Retrieved July 17, 2018 .
  7. ↑ see http://d-nb.info/820409170
  8. ↑ see extensive catalog in the holdings of the German National Library at http://d-nb.info/890488878 . The planned exhibition in the atrium of the TU Berlin was destroyed by demonstrators shortly before the start of the exhibition, see Robert Gerwin: Memorial ceremony with many question marks , in: Physikalische Blätter 45 (1989), page 6, I. Peschel: Dunkles Finale , Physikalische Blätter 45 (1989), page 9. According to Peschel, the exhibition for Munich was reconstructed and shown there.
  9. ↑ The Woman of the Year - On Lise Meitner's 125th birthday, the State Library exhibits letters, photos and documents from the life of the famous physicist . In: Berliner Zeitung , November 11, 2003
  10. ↑ Exhibition on the "History of Physics at the TU Berlin"
  11. ↑ Liebig Medal from the University of Giessen for Dr. hc Jost Lemmerich . JLU press release in: Science Information Service, September 10, 2003
personal data
SURNAME Lemmerich, Jost
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist, science historian and author
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 21, 2018
Place of death Berlin