Werner Kroebel

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Werner Kroebel (left) during the Kiel University Days (1965)

Werner Kroebel (born April 7, 1904 in Berlin ; † September 6, 2001 ) was a German physicist.

Life

Werner Kroebel was born and raised in Berlin . There he began his studies, but in 1928 he moved to Göttingen , where he wrote his dissertation on the origin of long-wave ultrared radiation from mercury under the Nobel Prize winner James Franck in 1929 . He then worked as an assistant at Franck until his emigration in 1933.

Since Kroebel did not want to follow the political developments in Germany, which also had an impact on the universities, he had to give up his academic career in 1934. He switched to industry and became head of the TeKaDe television laboratory in Nuremberg. In 1938 he went to the Hagenuk company in Kiel, where he mainly dealt with high frequency technology. In order to be able to better realize his numerous ideas, this company set up his own research and development department in 1941, the number of which grew to more than 200 in the following years.

At the same time he completed his habilitation at the University of Kiel in 1942 on the subject of The Wave Indicator, a special spectrometer for high-frequency alternating currents . At the end of the war, despite the switch to civilian work, he managed to continue running his laboratory on a smaller scale.

On October 1, 1946, he became director of the newly founded Institute for Applied Physics at the University of Kiel , which he headed until his retirement in 1974. During this time he supervised around 250 state examination and diploma theses as well as numerous dissertations.

Even after his retirement, he continued to work actively at the institute as the oldest professor at Kiel University until his death in 2001 and supervised several doctoral students.

meaning

More than 100 patents, his activities in physical organizations and more than 140 publications testify to his professional success.

Work areas

At the Institute for Applied Physics (today: Institute for Experimental and Applied Physics) at the University of Kiel , he established several new directions for a physical institute. In particular, he tried to approach topics from other scientific areas with physical methods. This resulted in working groups dealing with biophysics , medical physics and marine research. He has dealt very intensively with the latter in particular for many years and revolutionized marine measurement technology by applying the current possibilities of electronics .

Other areas of work

In addition to physics, Werner Kroebel also dealt very intensively with philosophical topics, on which he often gave lectures. Pedagogical questions were also important to him. He has dealt a lot with the question of how physics should be taught in schools and has also held special courses on this. He was also a co-founder of the Institute for Science Education (today: Leibniz Institute for Science and Mathematics Education (IPN)). In addition, he was very interested in social problems. For 30 years he was chairman of the state agency against addiction risks in Schleswig-Holstein .

Memberships

Awards

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Prof. Dr. Werner Kroebel died. In: IPN-Blätter 3/01, p. September 3 , 2001, accessed on April 4, 2019 .
  2. ^ Distinguished Technical Achievement Award. IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society, accessed April 4, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Kroebel, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH April 7, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 2001