Werner Lindinger

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Werner Lindinger (born January 25, 1944 in Brixlegg , Tyrol ; † February 16, 2001 in Kauaʻi , Hawaii ) was an Austrian physicist .

Life

Werner Lindinger attended elementary school in his hometown of Rattenberg and graduated from the Bundesrealgymnasium Kufstein in 1963 . He then studied physics at the University of Innsbruck , and from 1967 worked as a research assistant at what was then the Institute for Atomic Physics . In 1972 he received his doctorate with the dissertation mass spectrometry on negative glow light from a hollow cathode , written under Max Pahl . He was then employed as a scientific official at the Institute for Atomic Physics. From November 1973 to April 1975 he worked as a Max Kade Postdoctoral Fellow in Eldon Ferguson's group at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Boulder , Colorado.

After returning to Innsbruck, he became an assistant at the Institute for Atomic Physics and completed his habilitation in 1977 in the subject of "Experimental Atomic Physics". In 1978 he was appointed associate professor at the Institute for Experimental Physics, into which the Institute for Atomic Physics had been incorporated, and established his own working group. In 1987, at his instigation, the Institute for Ion Physics was founded at the University of Innsbruck, and he was its first director until 1993.

Werner Lindinger died on February 16, 2001 during a research stay in Hawaii in a swimming accident and was buried on February 28 at the Rattenberg cemetery.

Services

In his research, Werner Lindinger dealt in particular with ion - molecule reactions and investigated their temperature and energy dependency, mechanism, kinetics and energetics using a flow-drift tube or a selected ion flow tube. In addition to basic research, he dealt with application early on and developed new techniques and instruments. He received several patents (including a method for measuring air pollution) and was involved in founding two companies. He used trace gas analysis in medicine, environmental research and food analysis and he investigated the influence of anthropogenic and biogenic factors on the climate.

Awards

literature

  • Tilmann Märk, Eldon Ferguson, Paul Crutzen: Werner Lindinger. In: Physics Today , Volume 54 (2001), p. 91 ( doi : 10.1063 / 1.1420571 )
  • Tilmann Märk: In memoriam Univ. Prof. Dr. Werner Lindinger (1944-2001). In: Reports of the Natural Science-Medical Association in Innsbruck , Volume 88 (2001), pp. 393-405 ( PDF (1.7 MB) on ZOBODAT )
  • Tilmann Märk: In memoriam Werner Lindinger. In: Paul Scheier, Tilmann Märk (Ed.): XIII Symposium on Atomic and Surface Physics and Related Topics. Book of abstracts. Innsbruck 2002, pp. 5–13 ( PDF; 378 kB )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Werner Lindinger: A fulfilled research life came to an abrupt end. In: Innsbruck informs , April 2001, service supplement, p. IV ( digitized version )
personal data
SURNAME Lindinger, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Brixlegg , Tyrol
DATE OF DEATH February 16, 2001
Place of death Kauaʻi , Hawaii