Richard Becker (physicist)
Richard Becker | |
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Born | 2 December 1887 Hamburg |
Died | 16 March 1955 (aged 67) Bad Schwalbach |
Alma mater | |
Academic career | |
Doctoral advisor | August Weismann |
Doctoral students | Herbert Kroemer, Egon Orowan, Wilhelm Brenig, Peter Haasen |
Richard Becker (German pronunciation: [ˈʁɪçaʁt ˈbɛkɐ]; 3 December 1887 – 16 March 1955) was a German theoretical physicist who made contributions in thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, superconductivity, and quantum electrodynamics.
Early life
Becker was born in
During World War I, Becker worked in German industrial organizations, including the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut für physikalische Chemie und Elektrochemie and the lighting manufacturer Osram.[1][2]
In 1919, Sommerfeld recommended three of his students as qualified to become physics assistant to the mathematician David Hilbert at Göttingen. The list included Adolf Kratzer, Becker, and Franz Pauer. Kratzer, first on the list, went to Göttingen.[4][5]
Career
Upon Habilitation, Becker became a Privatdozent at the University of Berlin. In 1926, he became ordinarius professor at Technische Hochschule Berlin (Today: Technische Universität Berlin.) and head of the new physics department there.[2][3][6]
In 1935
In 1954, Becker became president of the
Becker's students included Eugene Wigner, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1963, Rolf Hagedorn,[12] Wolfgang Paul and Hans Georg Dehmelt, who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1989, and Herbert Kroemer, who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2000.[1]
Books
- Richard Becker Theorie der Elektrizität. neubearbeitung des Werkes von M. Abraham (Teubner, 1933)
- Richard Becker Theorie der Wärme (Springer, 1950, 1966, and 1985)
- Richard Becker Vorstufe zur Theoretischen Physik (Springer, 1950)
- Richard Becker, author and Fritz Sauter, editor Theorie der Elektrizität. Bd. 1. Einführung in die Maxwellsche Theorie (Teubner, 1957, 1962, 1964, and 1969)
- Richard Becker, author, Fritz Sauter, editor, and Ivor De Teissier, translator Electromagnetic Fields and Interactions, Volume I: Electromagnetic Theory and Relativity (Blaisdell, 1964)
- Richard Becker, author and Fritz Sauter, editor Theorie der Elektrizität. Bd. 2. Einführung in die Quantentheorie der Atome und der Strahlung (Teubner, 1959, 1963, 1970, and 1997)
- Richard Becker, author, Fritz Sauter, editor, and Ivor De Teissier, translator Electromagnetic Fields and Interactions, Volume II: Quantum Theory of Atoms and Radiation (Blaisdell, 1964)
- Richard Becker, author and Fritz Sauter, editor Electromagnetic Fields and Interactions Revised in 1964, and in a single volume. (Dover) ISBN 0-486-64290-9
- Richard Becker, author and Fritz Sauter, editor Theorie der Elektrizität. Bd. 3. Elektrodynamik der Materie (Teubner, 1969)
References
- ^ a b c d Becker – biologie.de
- ^ a b c d Author Catalog: Becker Archived 5 February 2007 at the Wayback Machine – American Philosophical Society
- ^ a b c Hentschel, 1996, Appendix F; see the entry for Richard Becker.
- ^ Becker – Hilbert assistant position, 2 September 1919
- ^ Reid, 1996, p. 153.
- ^ Bekcer – TU Berlin
- ^ Beyerchen, 1977, pp. 153–167.
- ^ Richard Becker was forced to make the transfer from Berlin as part of the general anti-theoretical policies promoted under Deutsche Physik - his position at Technische Hochschule Berlin was eliminated - and on the basis of the Law on the Retirement and Transfer of Professors as a Result of the Reorganization of the German System of Higher [Education?], an ordinance passed in 1935 and related to the Law for the Restoration of the Professional Civil Service. See Hentschel, 1996, pp. 340–341, and Hentschel, 1996, pp. 96–97.
- ^ Hentschel, 1996, Appendix F; see the entries for Fritz Sauter and Richard Becker.
- ^ Beyerchen, 1977, pp. 38–39.
- ^ DPG Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine – biologie.de
- S2CID 121152950.
Further reading
- Beyerchen, Alan D. Scientists Under Hitler: Politics and the Physics Community in the Third Reich (Yale, 1977) ISBN 0-300-01830-4
- Hentschel, Klaus, editor and Ann M. Hentschel, editorial assistant and Translator Physics and National Socialism: An Anthology of Primary Sources (Birkhäuser, 1996) ISBN 0-8176-5312-0
- Constance Reid Hilbert (Springer, 1996) ISBN 0-387-94674-8