Peter Theodore Landsberg

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Peter Landsberg (also Peter T. Landsberg or Peter Theodore Landsberg) (born August 8, 1922 in Berlin ; † February 14, 2010 in Southampton ) was a German-English theoretical physicist and professor of applied mathematics at the University of Southampton .

family

Peter T. Landsberg was born in Berlin as the younger of two sons of the architect Max Landsberg and the doctor Hedwig Landsberg, b. Hamburger (1888–1956) was born into a long-established secular Jewish family. His older brother was the later chemist Rolf Landsberg , born in 1920 , his grandfathers the civil engineer Theodor Landsberg (1847–1915) and the banker Naphtali Hamburger (1854–1934). Rochester, NY, USA Rabbi Max Landsberg was a brother of his grandfather Theodore. Peter T. Landsberg was married to the botanist Sylvia Barkley since 1955. The couple had three children.

Life and achievement

Peter T. Landsberg's father died in 1930 when his sons were still children. While Peter's brother Rolf went to a Quaker school in England as early as 1934, Peter stayed in Germany until January 1939, where he attended the private Jewish forest school Kaliski , and only then followed his brother to England, while his mother emigrated to Brazil a little later, where he went Her brother Hans Nathan Hamburger (1891–1953) had also fled with his family. Peter T. Landsberg began studying physics in London. With the beginning of the Second World War he was initially considered an enemy alien and, like many others, was temporarily interned on the Isle of Man . After the war he was able to complete his studies in 1949 with a doctorate from Imperial College London. In 1959, at the age of only 37, Landsberg was appointed Professor of Applied Mathematics at University College Cardiff . He stayed there until 1972. Then he went to Southampton to take up the chair of applied mathematics, which he held until his retirement in 1987.

Landsberg published 417 scientific articles and eleven books. In his long career as a theoretical physicist, he dealt with fundamental questions of quantum mechanics , cosmology and thermodynamics as well as semiconductor electronics . The so-called Landsberg Efficiency, named after him, indicates the theoretically highest possible conversion of solar energy into electrical energy .

Works

  • Editor: The Enigma of Time. A selection of thought-provoking articles , Bristol: Hilger 1982, CRC Press, 1983.
  • Seeking Ultimates: an intuitive guide to physics. Taylor & Francis, 1999.
  • Thermodynamics with quantum statistical illustrations, Interscience 1961
  • Thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, Dover 2014
  • Problems in thermodynamics and statistical physics, London 1971, Dover 2014
  • Recombination in semiconductors, Cambridge University Press 1991
  • with David A. Evans: Mathematical cosmology. An introduction, Oxford: Clarendon Press 1977
  • Editor: Solid-state theory: methods and applications, Wiley Interscience 1969

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/7741783/Professor-Peter-Landsberg.html
  2. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from July 27, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / geschichte.charite.de
  3. ↑ http://www.luise-berlin.de/lexikon/chawi/l/lotte_kaliski_schule.htm
  4. ↑ Charlotte Hamburger: The family and life of Hans Hamburger, 1891-1953. P. 60, 64 pages, typewriter, Leo Baeck Institute, LBI Archives, LBI Memoir Collection, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011 - See more at: http://access.cjh.org/home.php?type = extid & term = 378989 # 1
personal data
SURNAME Landsberg, Peter Theodore
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Landsberg, Peter T.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British theoretical physicist
DATE OF BIRTH August 8, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH February 14, 2010
Place of death Southampton