Robert Otto Pohl

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Robert Otto Pohl (born December 17, 1929 in Göttingen ) is a German-American solid-state physicist .

Pohl is the son of Robert Wichard Pohl and the great-grandson of Wichard Lange . He studied at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg and the University of Erlangen , where he graduated in 1955 and obtained his doctorate in 1957. After that he was an assistant there.

In 1958 he went to the USA at Cornell University , where he became an assistant professor in 1960, an associate professor in 1963 and a professor in 1968. Since 2000 he has been Goldwin Smith Professor Emeritus there.

In 1964 he was visiting professor at the TH Aachen , 1966/67 at the TH Stuttgart and also at the universities of Munich, Regensburg, Konstanz, the University of Canterbury in New Zealand and the nuclear research center Jülich.

His research interests include heat transport and lattice transport behavior in crystalline and amorphous solids, the structure of glass, issues relating to nuclear waste disposal (where he was a member of an advisory committee during the time of Jimmy Carter's administration ) and cryogenic techniques.

He also continues the tradition of demonstration experiments for his father's physics lectures, including in videos for the new edition of his father's physics lectures.

In 1985 he received the Oliver E. Buckley Condensed Matter Prize for his work on the structure of glass and vitreous materials. He has been a member of the National Academy of Sciences , Fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 1999 . In 1980 he received the Humboldt US Senior Scientist Award . In 1983/84 he was a Guggenheim Fellow.

Web links

  • Homepage. Department of Physics, Cornell(English).;
  • Robert O. Pohl. In: Physics History Network. American Institute of Physics

References

  1. ↑ Since nuclear waste is often melted down in glass for disposal, there is a connection to his previous field of work.
  2. ↑ Robert Otto Pohl, et al .: Physical experiments according to Robert Wichard Pohl (1884 - 1976). Institute for Scientific Film , 2003, accessed March 25, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Pohl, Robert Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American physicist
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Goettingen