Werner Braunbek

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Werner Braunbek (born January 8, 1901 in Bautzen , † February 9, 1977 in Tübingen ) was a German physicist .

Career

The son of the senior government building officer Otto August Braunbek (1869-1929) attended a secondary school and the technical university in Stuttgart , the University of Munich and the University of Berlin. In 1925 he received his doctorate as Dr. Ing. And in the following year he completed his habilitation at the TH Stuttgart with the thesis The spark delay in its dependence on voltage and ionization as a private lecturer for theoretical physics .

In 1932 he became an adjunct professor at the TH Stuttgart. In 1936, as the successor to Alfred Landé , he was appointed associate professor at the University of Tübingen , where he read from 1959 as full professor for theoretical physics. 1961/62 he was dean of the mathematics and natural sciences faculty at the University of Tübingen.

In 1934 he developed the Braunbek coil , consisting of four circular coils , a further development of the Helmholtz coil for generating homogeneous magnetic fields. In 1939 he had shown (contrary to Earnshaw's theorem ) that there are magnetic fields in which small diamagnetic bodies can float in a stable position. He has investigated diffraction phenomena of waves and developed powerful new methods for this purpose, especially at short wavelengths. Braunbek has also emerged as an author of popular science books on physics.

Publications

  • The radio receiver: a common understanding. 1929
  • The importance of Piccard's soaring. 1931
  • About the electrical conductivity of compressed metal vapors. 1935
  • The generation of largely homogeneous magnetic fields through circulating currents. 1934
  • Basic concepts of nuclear physics. 1958
  • When even atoms freeze: physics of the lowest temperatures. , Stuttgart (Kosmos) 1970
  • Atomic energy in the present and future. 1953
  • Nuclear physical measurement methods. 1960
  • Departure into the limitless: from the becoming of our physical knowledge. 1961
  • Dangerous rays: from the atom and from radioactive radiation. 1957
  • Introduction to the physics and technology of semiconductors. 1970
  • Rays, waves, quanta: lecture given at the celebratory matriculation at the University of Tübingen on Nov. 24, 1966. 1967
  • From light rays to neutrinos: modern ray physics for everyone. 1968
  • Corpuscular rays in research and practice
  • Methods and results of atomic nuclear research. 1948
  • The Eerie Growth Formula , 1973, ISBN 9783471665398 .
  • Researchers shake the world: the drama of the atomic nucleus. 1956 ( The Drama of the Atom )
  • with Karl Röttel : Researchers at the roots of being. 1981
  • New physics - revolutionizing the physical worldview. 1975, ISBN 3-499-16898-7 .
  • Physics in the world of tomorrow. 1975, ISBN 3430115175 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Braunbek in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely accessible)
  2. ↑ Ronald E. Pelrine: Stable in the balance ; In: Spektrum der Wissenschaft, February 2005, pp. 38–44.
  3. ↑ Werner Braunbek: The generation of largely homogeneous magnetic fields by circulating currents. In: Journal of Physics. 88, 1934, pp. 399-402, doi : 10.1007 / BF01343500 .
personal data
SURNAME Braunbek, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1901
PLACE OF BIRTH Bautzen
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1977
Place of death Tübingen