Otto Klemperer (physicist)

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]

He 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 cousin.^[8]

Bibliography

• Klemperer, Otto; Barnett, M.E. (1971). Electron optics. Cambridge monographs on physics (3 ed.). Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521179737. 
• 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 9788071854920. http://books.google.com/books?&id=W8TjAAAAMAAJ&q=Otto+1987. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "Otto Klemperer". Mathematics Genealogy Project. http://www.genealogy.ams.org/id.php?id=62580. Retrieved 2011-01-16. 
3. ^ ^{a b} 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.  edit
4. ^ Frame, PW (2005). "A history of radiation detection instrumentation". Health physics 88 (6): 613–37. PMID 15891457.  edit
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 0781769345. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qCebxPjdSBUC&pg=PA106. 
6. ^ Chambers, William (1973). Chambers's encyclopaedia. 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. http://www-g.eng.cam.ac.uk/oatley/nixon.html. 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 1860947093. http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=x4u4ikoj1M8C&pg=PA261. 

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Date of birth	1899
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Date of death	1987
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