Ludwig Bewilogua

Christian Ludwig Bewilogua (born August 28, 1906 in Helbigsdorf near Freiberg , † July 26, 1983 in Dresden ) was a German physicist and university professor .

Life

Bewilogua, son of a pastor , visited after the elementary school , the secondary school in Freiberg and laid 1925, the High School from. Until 1927 he studied at the University of Tuebingen mathematics and then to 1930 at the University of Leipzig physics , where he in the same year with the work Interferometric measurements on single molecules of chlorine substitution products of methane at Peter Debye doctorate was.

In 1932/33 Bewilogua was assistant to Arnold Eucken at the Institute for Physical Chemistry at the University of Göttingen and then until 1937 assistant to Peter Debye at the Physical Institute at the University of Leipzig. In 1937 he went with Debye to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics in Berlin-Dahlem and became head of the newly established department for low-temperature physics .

In the summer of 1945 Bewilogua moved to the Soviet Union and was involved in low-temperature research as part of the Soviet nuclear program until 1954 . In 1954 he became head of the newly opened Institute for Low Temperature Physics of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin (DAW) in Dresden. From 1955 he was also a professor for experimental physics at the Technical University of Dresden . In 1959 he became a full professor and from 1963 a full professor of low temperature physics. In 1971 Bewilogua retired and died in Dresden in 1983.

plant

Bewilogua founded the low-temperature physics in the GDR and has published internationally acclaimed contributions to the elucidation of the electrocaloric effect in this area . In addition, he created the scientific prerequisites for the industrial production of cryogenic gases such as helium and neon and paved the way for a broad application of low temperatures in the processing of natural gas , in energy technology , cryobiology and medicine . He was a co-founder of the journal “Wissen und Leben”, editor of the “Scientific Treatises from the Soviet Union” and editor of the journal “Cryogenics”.

Honors

• 1961 Honored Technician of the GDR
• 1966 National Prize of the GDR
• 1971 Patriotic Order of Merit in bronze
• 1975 Honored university lecturer in the GDR
• 1975 honorary professor at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena

literature

• Dieter Hoffmann:  Bewilogua, Ludwig . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .
• R. Knöner: Scientific journal of the Technical University of Dresden. Obituary for Ludwig Bewilogua . Dresden 1983.