Maria Wilhelmine Klemperer with her son Otto, 1901, painted by Sophie Koner

Otto Ernst Heinrich Klemperer (1899–1987[1]) was a physicist expert in electron optics. He was granted his doctorate by the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin in 1923.[2] His thesis advisor was Hans Geiger.[2] He continued to work with Geiger in the 1930s.[3]

Klemperer was co-inventor in 1928 of the Geiger-Klemperer ball counter,[4] "the first major advance in the design of proportional counters".[5] During the 1930s, he worked at the Cavendish Laboratory at the University of Cambridge on discrepancies between Fermi's theory of β-decay and the observed radiation properties of rubidium and polonium.[3] He was later an assistant professor and Reader in Physics at Imperial College, London,[6] where he wrote the third edition of his book on electron optics with Mike Barnett.[7]

The conductor Otto Klemperer was his father's cousin.[8] His uncle was the Romanist Victor Klemperer.

Bibliography

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  • Klemperer, Otto; Barnett, M.E. (1971). Electron optics. Cambridge monographs on physics (3 ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-17973-7.
  • Klemperer, Otto (1972). Electron physics: the physics of the free electron. Butterworths.

References

  1. ↑ Klemperer, Victor (2002). Deníky 1933-1941: Chci vydat svědectví. Litomyšl. p. 528. ISBN 978-80-7185-492-0.
  2. 1 2 Otto Ernst Heinrich Klemperer at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. 1 2 Klemperer, O. (1935). "On the Radioactivity of Potassium and Rubidium". Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 148 (865): 638–648. Bibcode:1935RSPSA.148..638K. doi:10.1098/rspa.1935.0038. JSTOR 96293.
  4. ↑ Frame, PW (2005). "A history of radiation detection instrumentation". Health Physics. 88 (6): 613–37. doi:10.1097/00004032-200506000-00008. PMID 15891457.
  5. ↑ Ryan, Michael T.; Poston, Sr., John W. (2006). A Half Century of Health Physics: 50th Anniversary of the Health Physics Society. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. p. 106. ISBN 0-7817-6934-5.
  6. ↑ Chambers, William (1973). Chambers's encyclopaedia. Vol. 5. International Learning Systems. p. xiii.
  7. ↑ Smith, K. C. A.; B. C. Breton. "Sir Charles Oatley and the Scanning Electron Microscope: II. Research directed by W. C. Nixon". Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics. Elsevier. Retrieved 16 January 2011.
  8. ↑ Gay, Hannah (2007). "Imperial College during the Second World War". The history of Imperial College London, 1907-2007: higher education and research in science, technology and medicine. World Scientific. p. 261. ISBN 978-1-86094-709-4.
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