Werner Martienssen

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Werner Martienssen (born January 23, 1926 in Kiel , † January 29, 2010 in Dreieich ) was a German physicist and professor at the Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . His fields of work were solid state physics , quantum optics and nonlinear dynamics .

Live and act

Martienssen went to high school in Kiel and, after military service from 1943 in the Reichskriegsmarine, studied physics, mathematics and chemistry at the universities of Würzburg and Göttingen from 1946 to 1950 , where he graduated in 1950 ( wave groups on the surface of the water ) and in 1952 with Robert Wichard Pohl received his doctorate ( photochemical reactions in ion crystals ). He then worked as an assistant at Pohl and did research on solid-state spectroscopy and the photochemistry of solids. In 1959 he completed his habilitation in Göttingen. 1959/60 he was visiting professor at Cornell University , 1960 professor for radiation physics at the University of Stuttgart and from 1961 professor for experimental physics at the Goethe University Frankfurt, where he retired in 1991. From 1969 to 1986 he was chairman of the Collaborative Research Center for Solid State Spectroscopy and then a member until 1998 and from 1987 to 1993 chairman of the Collaborative Research Center for Nonlinear Dynamics.

Martienssen's area of ​​expertise was quantum optics . In an obituary it was said: “Teaching was of great importance to him. His experimental physics lecture was famous far beyond the borders of Germany; many sections were captured in films for teaching export. This lecture was his masterpiece, he set up the experiments with meticulousness. "

He was an honorary doctor from the University of Dortmund. From 1980 to 1988 he was chairman of the physics department of the German Research Foundation (DFG) and a member of its Senate, and from 1976 to 1978 vice-president of the European Physical Society. From 1984 to 1987 he was a member of the Science Council . He was also a member of the supervisory board of the German space agency DARA from 1990 to 1997 and of the Hahn-Meitner Institute in Berlin from 1988 onwards . In 1988 he received the Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class.

Martienssen had been a member of the Leopoldina Academy of Sciences since 1988 and was a member of the executive committee of this academy from 1992 to 1999. Since 1989 he has also been a member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen. In 2001 he received the Robert Wichard Pohl Prize from the German Physical Society .

Martienssen was the doctoral supervisor of Nobel Prize winner Gerd Binnig and teacher of Horst Störmer (also a Nobel Prize winner).

Works

  • Introduction to Physics. 4 volumes. Publisher Harri Deutsch. Volume 1: Mechanics. 7th edition. 1994, ISBN 3-8171-1323-4 ; Volume 2: Electrodynamics. 7th edition. 1997; Volume 3: Thermodynamics. 6th edition. 1996; Volume 4-1: Vibrations and Waves. 3. Edition. 1992; Volume 4-2: Optics - rays, quanta, waves. 3. Edition. 1992.
  • with Heinz Pick: On the photochemical sensitization of KBr crystals by adding KH . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1953, DNB 458776580
Editing
  • with Hans Warlimont: Springer Handbook of Condensed Matter and Materials Data. Springer, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-540-33555-2 .

literature

  • Wolf Assmus , Ernst Mohler, Hartmut Roskos: Obituary for Werner Martienssen. In: Physics Journal. 4, 2010. ( Digitized version , PDF, accessed on September 29, 2015)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Wolf Assmus: Died: Werner Martienssen. In: UniReport. 2/2010 of April 8, 2010, p. 41.

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personal data
SURNAME Martienssen, Werner
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Kiel
DATE OF DEATH January 29, 2010
Place of death Dreieich