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Otto Krisement (born August 21, 1920 in Leverkusen ; † June 6, 2013 in Münster ) was a German theoretical physicist and university professor .

Life

Otto Krisement studied physics , mathematics and meteorology at the University of Cologne . After receiving his doctorate in 1950, he took over the management of the newly established “microcalorimetric laboratory” at the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research in Düsseldorf in 1953. In the winter semesters 1952/53 and 1955/56 he was visiting professor at the Technical University of Stockholm and at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge.

After completing his habilitation and receiving the Masing Prize from the German Society for Metallurgy , he became a private lecturer at RWTH Aachen University in 1960 and professor in the Physics Department of the University of Münster in 1965 , where he later held the "Institute for Theoretical Physics II" until his retirement in 1985 (now: Institute for Theoretical Solid State Physics).

His research interests, which were initially in the field of application-oriented metal research, shifted and later broadened to the theory of classical fluids, to metallic magnetism , to the theory of phase transitions , spin glasses and neural networks .

Publications (selection)

• Eduard Houdremont, Otto Krisement: Consideration of the hypothermia of transformation processes as the basis for the martensite transformation . Verl. Stahleisen 1953
• Message from the Max Planck Institute for Iron Research. Dep. 863. Nucleation and particle growth during precipitation in mixed crystals . Verl. Stahleisen 1960

Individual evidence

1. ^ Otto Krisement obituaries. June 13, 2013, accessed October 19, 2018 . 
2. ^ Mourning for Prof. em. Otto crisis. In: press releases. Rectorate of the University of Münster, June 15, 2013, accessed on October 19, 2018 .