Hans Kopfermann (1895–1963)

Weisskopf, Victor F.

doi:10.1016/0029-5582(64)90684-4

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“…41 After the war, the First Institute for Experimental Physics was headed by Robert Richard Pohl, whose research constituted one of the foundations of solid-state physics. The direction of the Second Physics Institute between 1942 and 1953 was in the hands of a former student of James Franck, Hans Kopfermann (Weisskopf 1964), who initiated and supported nuclear physics in Germany together with his assistant Wolfgang Paul. 42 During the war, Kopferman and Paul learned of Kerst's success in constructing and operating the first betatron, and decided to build such an accelerator as soon as possible.…”

Section: The T-force and Widerøe's Betatronmentioning

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Bruno Touschek in Germany after the War: 1945-46

Bonolis¹,

Pancheri²

2019

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Bruno Touschek was an Austrian born theoretical physicist, who proposed and built the first electron-positron collider in 1960 in the Frascati National Laboratories in Italy. In this note we reconstruct a crucial period of Bruno Touschek's life so far scarcely explored, which runs from Summer 1945 to the end of 1946. We shall describe his university studies in Göttingen, placing them in the context of the reconstruction of German science after 1945. The influence of Werner Heisenberg and other prominent German physicists will be highlighted. In parallel, we shall show how the decisions of the Allied powers, towards restructuring science and technology in the UK after the war effort, determined Touschek's move to the University of Glasgow in 1947.Make it a story of distances and starlight

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Section: The T-force and Widerøe's Betatronmentioning

confidence: 99%