Peter Klaudy
Peter Alexander Klaudy (born June 17, 1903 in Stauding ; † October 22, 1985 in Salzburg ) was an Austrian electrical engineer.
Life
Matura in 1921 at the German State High School in Opava , Silesia ( Opava , Czech Republic). From 1921 to 1926 he studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Vienna , initially remained as a research assistant at the university, went to the USA as a working student in 1927 and then worked for the Western Electric Company in Chicago. 1930 to 1932 with Felten & Guillaume in Germany, then until 1934 with the Swedish company Asia in Vienna. In 1934 he emigrated to South Africa for four years and ran his own company in Johannesburg for electrical lighting and power systems as well as the manufacture of components. From 1939 in the service of the Deutsche Reichsbahn, pipeline construction over the Pass Lueg, from 1940 in the electrical research office in Munich . He received his habilitation in 1943 with the work on the behavior of current transformers during switching processes and related questions . From 1945 head of the research institute of the Austrian Federal Railways in Zirl .
From 1950 until his retirement in 1973 he was professor for the basics of electrical engineering and theoretical electrical engineering at the Graz University of Technology . 1965/66 rector. From 1963 to 1977 he also headed the Institute for Low Temperature Research here . He and his team worked on the development of superconducting cables and the experimental investigation of unipolar machines.
In 1975 he received a patent for a unipolar machine . In 1979, as a pioneer of high-performance transmission with superconducting cables, he achieved the testing of a prototype in the Arnstein power plant (Styria).
Awards (selection)
- 1970 full member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- 1971 Corresponding member of the Rhenish-Westphalian Academy of Sciences
- 1973 Great Golden Decoration of Honor from the State of Styria
- 1974 Awarded the Wilhelm Exner Medal
- 1976 Honorary Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Innsbruck
- In 1980 he received the Erwin Schrödinger Prize
- 1980 Austrian State Prize for Energy Research
- 1982 Award of the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, 1st class
Works
- Some thoughts on the importance of technology ; with Günther Gottwald ; Kienreich, 1965
- Energy transfer through deep-frozen, especially superconducting cables; Electric storage vehicles (Rheinisch-Westphalian Academy of Sciences Lectures) ; with Theodor Wasserrab ; West German publishing house; 1973; ISBN 3-531-07177-7
Web links
- Literature by and about Peter Klaudy in the catalog of the German National Library
- Entry about Klaudy, Peter in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )
- Entry about Peter Klaudy in the database of the Wilhelm Exner Medal Foundation .
- 80th birthday celebration
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.igte.tugraz.at/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=31&Itemid=30 ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
1. Institute for Electrical Drive Technology and Machines: Karl Koller (1921–1938) | Karl Schäfer (1940–1944) | Anton Höpp (1940–1945) | Alfred Grabner (1949–1961) | Gerhard Aichholzer (1963–1986) | Manfred Rentmeister (1976-2005) | Anette Mütze (since 2007)
2. Institute for Electrical Systems and Networks: Hans Wierer (1940–1945) | Günther Oberdorfer (1947–1970) | Richard Muckenhuber (1974–1996) | Lothar Fickert (1999–2017) | Robert Schürhuber (since 2017)
3. Institute for Fundamentals and Theory of Electrical Engineering: Peter Klaudy (1950–1973) | Kurt Richter (1975–2000) | Oszkar Biro (2010–2019) | Manfred Kaltenbacher (since 2020)
4. Institute for Electronics: Wilfried Fritzsche (1963–1982) | Hans Leopold (1984-2004) | Wolfgang Pribyl (2005–2016) | Bernd Deutschmann (since 2014)
5. Institute for Communication Networks and Satellite Communication: Willibald Riedler (1969–2000) | Otto Koudelka (since 2003)
6. Institute for High Voltage Technology and System Management: Alfred Leschanz (1972–1980) | Hubert Gsodam (1982–1990) | Michael Muhr (1996–2012) | Uwe Schichler (since 2014)
7. Institute for Electrical Measurement Technology and Sensor Technology: Harald Weiß (1973–1987) | Georg Brasseur (since 1999) | Alexander Bergmann (since 2016 head of the Institute for Electronic Sensor Systems, since 2020 head of the new institute merged with the Institute for Electrical Measurement Technology and Measurement Signal Processing)
8. Institute for Control and Automation Technology: Gerhard Schneider (1974–1993) | Nicolaos Dourdoumas (1995-2013) | Martin Horn (since 2014)
9. Institute for Technical Computer Science: Reinhold Weiß (1987–2011) | Kay Römer (since 2013)
10. Institute for Electricity Economics and Energy Innovation: Heinrich Stigler (since 2001) | Wolfgang Bösch (since 2020)
11. Chair for Signal Processing and Speech Communication: Gernot Kubin (since 2001)
12. Chair for high frequency technology: Wolfgang Bösch (since 2010)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Klaudy, Peter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Klaudy, Peter A. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian electrical engineer, pioneer in superconductivity |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 17, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stauding |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 22, 1985 |
| Place of death | Salzburg |