Fritz Fischer (physicist)
Fritz Fischer (9 February 1898 – 28 December 1947) was a technical physicist, engineer and inventor. He was married to Maud Schätti.[1]
Biography
Fritz Fischer was born on 9 February 1898 in
1932 he received a call to the ETH Zurich, where he became professor and founded the Institute of Technical Physics.
Other early assistants at his Institute were Hugo Thiemann (founding member of the Club of Rome), Gustav Guanella, Werner Lindecker and Erna Hamburger, who became famous on their own.
Fritz Fischer was one of the important technical scientists of his day. He was co-founder together with Max Lattmann, his first Ph.D. graduate, of Contraves AG, a Swiss defence and aerospace company,[1] now part of Rheinmetall Air Defence AG, Zürich.
Fischer died on 28 December 1947 in Zürich, at the age of 49.
References
- ^ a b c d Borgnis, Fritz: Fischer, Fritz. In: Neue Deutsche Biographie 5 (1961), p. 185. Retrieved 2020-04-13.
- ^ Watch the men on the moon. ethz.ch online, 2019-07-24. Retrieved 2020-04-13.
- ^ Wild, Peter J.: Liquid Crystal Display Evolution. Swiss Contributions.
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