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Walt(h)er Gerlach (1 August 1889 - 10 August 1979) was a German physicist who co-discovered space quantization in a magnetic field, the Stern-Gerlach effect.

Education

Gerlach was born in Biebrich, Hessen-Nassau.
He studied at the University of Tübingen from 1908, and received his doctorate in 1912, under Friedrich Paschen. The subject of his dissertation was on the measurement of radiation. After obtaining his doctorate, he continued on as an assistant to Paschen, which he'd been since 1911. Gerlach completed his Habilitation at Tübingen in 1916, while serving during World War I.

Career

From 1915 to 1918, during the war, Gerlach did service with the German Army. He worked on wireless telegraphy at Jena under Max Wien. He also served in the Artillerie-Prüfungskommission under Rudolf Ladenburg.
Gerlach became a Privatdozent at the University of Tübingen in 1916. A year later, he became a Privatdozent at the Georg-August University of Göttingen. From 1919 to 1920, he was the head of a physics laboratory of Farbenfabriken Elberfeld, formerly Bayer-Werke.
In 1925, Gerlach took a call and became an ordinarius professor at the University of Tübingen, successor to Friedrich Paschen. In 1929, he took a call and became ordinarius professor at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, successor to Wilhelm Wien. He held this position until May 1945, when he was arrested by the American and British Armed Forces. Upon Gerlach’s return to Germany in 1946, he became a visiting professor at the University of Bonn. From 1948, he became an ordinarius professor of experimental physics and director of the physics department at the University of Munich, a position he held until 1957. He was also rector of the university from 1948 to 1951. From 1949 to 1951, Gerlach was the founding president of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, which promotes applied sciences. From 1949 to 1961, he was the vice-president of the Deutsche Gemeinschaft zur Erhaltung und Förderrung der Forschung (German Association for the Support and Advancement of Scientific Research); also known in short as the Deutsche Forschungs-Gemeinschaft (DFG), previously the Notgemeinschaft der Deutschen Wissenschaft. In 1957, Gerlach was a co-signer of the Göttingen Manifesto, which was against rearming the Federal Republic of Germany with atomic weapons. He died in Munich in 1979.

Other positions

From 1935 – Chairman of the committee to appoint a successor to Arnold Sommerfeld.
From 1939 – Member of the Comerlin working group on ship degaussing and torpedo physics.
From 1948 – a member of the Göttingen, Halle, and Munich Academies of Sciences.
Member of the Ordre pour le Mérite.

Literature

Walther Gerlach and Otto Stern Das magnetische Moment des Silberatoms, Zeitschrift für Physik Volume 9, Number 1, 353-355 (1922). The article was received on 1 April 1922. Gerlach is cited as being at the University of Frankfurt am Main and Stern is cited as being at the University of Rostock.

Books

Walter Gerlach Matter, Electricity, Energy: The Principles of Modern Atomistic and Experimental Results of Atomic Investigations (D. Van Nostrand, 1928)

Mac Hartmann and Walther Gerlach Naturwissenschaftliche Erkenntnis und ihre Methoden (Springer, 1937)

Walther Gerlach Die Quantentheorie. Max Planck sein Werk und seine Wirkung. Mit einer Bibliographie der Werke Max Plancks (Universität Bonn, 1948)

Walther Gerlach Probleme der Atomenergie (Biederstein Verlag, 1948)

Walther Gerlach Wesen und Bedeutung der Atomkraftwerke (Oldenbourg, 1955)

Walter Gerlach and Martha List Johannes Kepler. Leben und Werk (Piper, 1966)

Gerlach, Walter (editor) Das Fischer Lexikon - Physik (Fischer Bücherei, 1969)

Walter Gerlach Physik des täglichen Lebens - Eine Anleitung zu physikalischem Denken und zum Verständnis der physikalischen Entwicklung (Fischer Bücherei, 1971) ISBN: 3436013412

Walter Gerlach (editor) Physik. Neuasugabe Unter Mitarbeit Von Prof. Dr. Josef Brandmüller (Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag, 1978) ISBN: 3596400198

Walther Gerlach Otto Hahn (WVG, 1984)

Gerlach, Walther; List, Martha Johannes Kepler : Der Begründer der modernen Astronomie München, (Piper Verlag GmbH, 1987) ISBN: 3492152481Further Information

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