Otto Laporte

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Otto Laporte (born July 23, 1902 in Mainz , † March 28, 1971 in Ann Arbor , Michigan , USA ) was a physicist and fluid mechanic .

Laporte first studied at Frankfurt University from 1920 , and one of his professors there was Max Born . Born recommended Laporte to Arnold Sommerfeld , with whom he received his doctorate in Munich in 1924. In Sommerfeld's group, Laporte also worked with Werner Heisenberg , Gregor Wentzel , Karl Herzfeld , Paul Peter Ewald and Wolfgang Pauli .

In 1924 Laporte moved to the USA as one of the first Rockefeller Fellows , where he was at the National Bureau of Standards until 1926 . Laporte became a US citizen in 1935. In 1928 he was a lecturer at the University of Kyoto and in the same year at the Institute for Physical and Chemical Research in Tokyo . At the University of Michigan he became a lecturer (instructor) in 1926, assistant professor in 1927, associate professor in 1935 and professor in 1945. Since 1925 he was a fellow of the American Physical Society .

Laporte had many years of experience in Japan (he was again a lecturer in Tokyo in 1933 and 1937, at the Imperial University) and therefore from 1954 to 1956 and 1961 to 1963 Scientific Attaché at the US Embassy in Tokyo. In 1949/50 he was a secret service analyst for the US Army at their European headquarters.

From 1944, Laporte devoted himself to another area, fluid mechanics .

Laporte died of rapidly progressing cancer in 1971, so he was posthumously accepted as an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences .

Otto Laporte Memorial Lectures have been held annually since 1972. The American Physical Society has awarded the Otto Laporte Prize since 1972 .

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SURNAME Laporte, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American physicist and fluid mechanic
DATE OF BIRTH July 23, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Mainz
DATE OF DEATH March 28, 1971
Place of death Ann Abor, Michigan USA