Lothar Nordheim
| Nummer | B576 |
| Type | Billeder |
| Beskrivelse | Lothar Nordheim portrait photograph. |
| Bemærkning | Lothar Wolfgang Nordheim (1899 -1985) was a German physicist. In l923 he received his Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Göttingen. In the following years he took part in the efforts to apply the quantum theory to the understanding of atomic structure and to its behaviour. Nordheim’s interests were in the quantum theory of matter, the structure of metals, cosmic radiation and nuclear physics. He immigrated to the U.S.A in 1934. In 1937 Nordheim accepted a Professorship at Duke University. When the Manhattan project was set up, he was called upon to accept important responsibilities at the Oak Ridge facility. He served as section chief in the "Clinton Laboratories", the forerunner of the present Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and from 1945 to 1947 he was Director of the Physics Division of that laboratory. In 1947 he returned to Duke. The most important work of Nordheim in the postwar period is his work on spins, moments and shells in nuclei. Erwin Fues (1893 - 1970) was a German theoretical physicist who made contributions to atomic physics and molecular physics, quantum wave mechanics, and solid-state physics. During 1918, he became a student of Arnold Sommerfeld. After Sommerfeld's death in 1951, Fues edited and supplemented multiple editions of two volumes of Sommerfeld's six-volume ”Vorlesungen über theoretische Physik”. From 1929 to 1934, he served as ordinarius professor at the Hanover Technische Hochschule. From 1934 to 1943, he served as ordinarius professor jointly at the University of Breslau and the Breslau Technische Hochschule, after which, he went to the Vienna Technische Universität, where he remained until 1947. In that year, he went back to the Stuttgart Technische Hochschule, where the Institute for Theoretical and Applied Physics (Institut für Theoretische und Angewandte Physik), had been formed with two chairs. Fues became ordinarius professor for theoretical physics as well as director of the institute; the other joint director was Ulrich Dehlinger. The institute followed the tradition of both Sommerfeld and Ewald in carrying on with both theoretical and experimental research and teaching |
| Årstal | 1938 |
| Fotograf | Ukendt |
| Arkiv | Niels Bohr Archive |
