Wolfgang Glaser (electrical engineer)
Wolfgang Glaser (born May 10, 1931 in Jena , † October 3, 2017 in Dresden ) was a German electrical and communications engineer . He became known beyond specialist circles through several books on electronics and communications technology.
Life
Glaser spent his childhood in Jena. In 1946, as part of the Ossawakim campaign , the family was deported to Kolomna and Sagorsk in the Soviet Union , where his father Paul Glaser worked as a designer for the Carl Zeiss company in Karl Papello's work group and Wolfgang also worked while he was in evening school and distance learning at the same time Continued training. After returning to Germany in 1952, Glaser studied electrical engineering at the TU Dresden and since 1956 has worked in communications equipment development and industrial research. From 1964 to 1983 Glaser was head of department at the Institute for Telecommunications in Berlin, Dresden branch. He completed his habilitation in 1970 on the multi-channel transmission of news signals . In 1983 Glaser was offered the chair for optoelectronics at the Humboldt University in Berlin , where he was director of the Institute for Electronics and Telecommunications until its dissolution in 1995.
Books
- Electrons at the Berlin plant , 1961
- Electronics, where from - where to? Basel, 1966
- Microelectronics Würzburg, 1970 / Leipzig, 1973
- Multi-channel transmission of signals Leipzig, 1977 (textbook)
- Optical fiber: An introduction Berlin, 1981 (textbook, revised editions Cologne, 1986; Berlin, 1990)
- Photonics for Engineers Berlin, 1997 (textbook)
- From cell phones, fiber optics and the Internet: This is how modern communication works Braunschweig, 2001
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Glaser, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German communications engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 10, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jena |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd October 2017 |
| Place of death | Dresden |