Walter trolley
Walter Rollwagen (born July 7, 1909 in Bayreuth , † December 10, 1993 in Munich ) was a German physicist and professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich .
Career and research areas
After studying physics at the Universities of Göttingen and Munich , Rollwagen did his doctorate under Walther Gerlach with a thesis on measuring the potential of filament rays . He completed his habilitation in 1939 with a paper on spectroscopy. The spectral analytical processes developed together with Gerlach were used in the metal industry for the analysis of alloys ; From 1939 onwards, as an employee of the Optical Works C. A. Steinheil Söhne , Rollwagen brought devices for this to series production.
In 1949 Rollwagen was made an adjunct professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich, and in 1950 an associate professor. After receiving a chair for experimental physics in Munich in 1952 , he set up the Second Physics Institute there as director. As a construction consultant for the university, Rollwagen also worked on the reconstruction of teaching and research facilities that were destroyed in World War II. From 1955 to 1961, the university observatory in Bogenhausen was under the temporary management of Rollwagens.
In addition to spectroscopy, Rollwagen researched energy losses in solids .
literature
- Arnulf Schlueter: Walter Rollwagen . In: Yearbook of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences, 1995 . Bavarian Academy of Sciences, Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7696-7984-9
Memberships
- Bavarian Academy of Sciences , from 1965; President from 1977 to 1979
- German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina , from 1978
Individual evidence
- ↑ 175 years of the Bogenhausen observatory ( memento from April 25, 2009 in the Internet Archive ). Munich University Observatory, accessed on October 7, 2010
- ↑ Member entry of Walter Rollwagen at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on August 10, 2015.
| predecessor | Office | successor |
|---|---|---|
| Hans Raupach |
President of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences from 1977 to 1979 |
Herbert Franke |
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Trolley, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 7, 1909 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bayreuth |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 10, 1993 |
| Place of death | Munich |