Wolfgang Riezler
Wolfgang Heinrich Siegmund Riezler (born November 14, 1905 in Freiburg im Breisgau ; † September 27, 1962 in Bonn ) was a German physicist .
Erwin Riezler's son studied physics from 1923 at the University of Erlangen and the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich , where he received his doctorate in 1929 under Wilhelm Wien ( on the Doppler effect on a homogeneous hydrogen molecule beam ). He then worked from 1929 to 1931 at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau and from 1930/31 with James Chadwick and Ernest Rutherford at the Cavendish Laboratory in Cambridge , where he turned to nuclear physics. Then he was an assistant at the University of Rostock in Christian Fuchtbauer where he qualified as 1935th
He went to the University of Bonn , where he became an adjunct professor in 1943. During the Second World War he worked in nuclear physics at the Paris cyclotron of Frédéric Joliot-Curie at the Collège de France . After the war he was back in Bonn, where he was initially a deputy from 1948, from 1952 associate professor and from 1953 full professor of experimental physics. He became director of the Bonn Institute for Radiation and Nuclear Physics and built a synchrocyclotron there.
Among other things, Riezler dealt with the use of radioactive isotopes in medicine. He was also active in radiation protection as head of the “Commission for the Protection of the Civilian Population” of the Federal Ministry of the Interior. In 1957 he was one of the 18 signatories of the Göttingen Declaration against the planned nuclear armament of the Bundeswehr (as were two other members of the official protection commission of the federal government, Otto Haxel and Heinz Maier-Leibnitz ).
Fonts
- Introduction to nuclear physics. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1937 (6th expanded edition. Oldenbourg, Munich 1959).
- with Konrad Kopitzki: nuclear physics internship. Teubner, Stuttgart 1963.
- Particle accelerator. Cologne, Westdeutscher Verlag 1954.
- Editor with Wilhelm Walcher : Nuclear Technology: Physics, Technology, Reactors. Teubner, Stuttgart 1958.
literature
- Wolfgang Riezler. In: German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 8, 2nd, revised and expanded edition, Munich 2007, p. 418.
- Horst Kant : Riezler, Wolfgang. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 619 ( digitized version ).
Web links
- Literature by and about Wolfgang Riezler in the catalog of the German National Library
Remarks
- ↑ Text of the Göttingen Declaration 1957 at uni-goettingen.de.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Riezler, Wolfgang |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Riezler, Wolfgang Heinrich Siegmund (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 14, 1905 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Freiburg in Breisgau |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 27, 1962 |
| Place of death | Bonn |