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Ulrich Stille (born January 23, 1910 in Berlin- Wilmersdorf; † March 7, 1976 in Braunschweig ) was a German physicist and from 1970 to 1975 President of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB).

Life

Stille went to high school in Braunschweig and Hanover and studied physics, mathematics and chemistry at the TH Hanover , the University of Munich and the University of Göttingen . Since 1928 he was a member of the Isaria Corps . He received his doctorate in 1933 under James Franck at the University of Göttingen (as his last doctoral student in Göttingen). The title of the dissertation was On the question of the formation of negative ions in mercury vapor . He completed his habilitation in 1938 at the TU Braunschweig with a thesis on the question of the formation and excitation of molecular ions in active nitrogen . After completing his doctorate, he worked as an assistant or chief engineer in Hanover, Göttingen and Braunschweig and, from 1939, a lecturer in Braunschweig. From 1948 he was at PTB, where he became a government councilor in 1952, took over Department I (Mechanics) in 1958 (head director and professor) and became vice president in 1969 and president in 1970. In 1952 he became an adjunct professor for physics in Braunschweig.

Stille dealt with atomic physics, molecular spectroscopy, gas discharge, plasma physics, active gases, the physics of the upper atmosphere and in particular with metrology. His book Measuring and Calculating in Physics was a standard work.

He was an elected member of the Comité des Poids et Mesures and various IUPAP commissions for life .

Fonts

  • Measuring and computing in physics . Vieweg, 1955, 2nd edition 1961

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1996, 82 , 1162
  2. ↑ Abridged published in Zeitschrift für Physik 109 (1938), p. 491
personal data
SURNAME Silence, Ulrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 7, 1976
Place of death Braunschweig