Herbert Fröhlich

Infobox_Scientist
name = Herbert Fröhlich


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caption = Herbert Fröhlich
birth_date = birth date|1905|12|9|mf=y
birth_place = Rexingen, Germany
death_date = death date and age|1991|1|23|1905|1|9|mf=y
death_place = Liverpool, England
residence = UK
nationality = German, British
field = Physics
work_institution = University of Bristol
University of Liverpool
University of Salford
alma_mater = Ludwig-Maximilians University
doctoral_advisor = Arnold Sommerfeld
doctoral_students = Sebastian Doniach
notable_students = Sigurd Zienau
known_for = Fröhlich coherence
Fröhlich polaron
Fröhlich Hamiltonian
prizes = Max-Planck Medal
religion =


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Herbert Fröhlich (9 December, 1905 in Rexingen, Germany – 23 January, 1991 in Liverpool, England) was a German-born British physicist and a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Fröhlich was the son of Fanny Frida (née Schwarz) and Jakob Julius Fröhlich, members of an old-established Jewish family.

Career

In 1927, Fröhlich entered the Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, to study physics, and he received his doctorate under Arnold Sommerfeld, in 1930. [ [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/html/id.phtml?id=66698 Fröhlich] – Mathematics Genealogy Project. Dr. phil. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München. 1930 Dissertation title: "Zum Photoeffekt an Metallen". Advisor: Arnold Sommerfeld.] His first position was as Privatdozent at the University of Freiburg. Due to rising anti-Semitism and the Deutsche Physik movement under Adolf Hitler, and at the invitation of Yakov Frenkel, Fröhlich went to the Soviet Union, in 1933, to work at the Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute in Leningrad. During the Great Purge, he fled to England in 1935. Except for a short visit to Holland and a brief internment during World War II, he worked in Nevill Francis Mott’s department, at the University of Bristol, until 1948, rising to the position of Reader. At the invitation of James Chadwick, he took the Chair for Theoretical Physics at the University of Liverpool. From 1973, he was Professor of Solid State Physics at the University of Salford, however, all the while maintaining an office at the University of Liverpool, where he gained emeritus status in 1976 until his death. During 1981, he was a visiting professor at Purdue University. [ [http://www.lifescientists.de/conference/herbertfroehlich.htm Fröhlich Biography] – International Institute of Biophysics] [ [http://www.physics.purdue.edu/alumni/hondegree/frohlich.shtml Fröhlich] – Purdue University] [ [http://www.liv.ac.uk/physics/latest_news/news_07_04_06.html Fröhlich] – University of Liverpool]

Fröhlich proposed a theory which is known as Fröhlich coherence. [ [http://www.nonlocal.com/hbar/frohlich.html Fröhlich Coherence] ] [ [http://www.i-sis.org.uk/prague.php Fröhlich Coherence] – Institute of Science in Society]

Honours

*1951 – Fellow of the Royal Society

*1972 – Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft Max-Planck Medal

Books

*Herbert Fröhlich "Elektronentheorie der Metalle. (Struktur und Eigenschaften der Materie in Eigendarstellung, Bd.18). " (Springer, 1936, 1969)

*Herbert Fröhlich "Elektronentheorie der Metalle" (Ann Arbor: Edwards Brothers, First US edition, in German, 1943) ISBN 1114566489

*Herbert Fröhlich "Theory of Dielectrics: Dielectric Constant and Dielectric Loss" (Clarendon Press, 1949, 1958)

*Herbert Fröhlich and F. Kremer "Coherent Excitations in Biological Systems" (Springer-Verlag, 1983)

*Herbert Fröhlich, editor "Biological Coherence and Response to External Stimuli" (Springer, 1988) ISBN 978-0387187396

Bibliography

*Terence W. Barrett and Herbert A. Pohl "Energy Transfer Dynamics: Studies and Essays in Honor of Herbert Frohlich on His Eightieth Birthday" (Springer-Verlag, 1987) ISBN 978-3540175025

Notes

External links

* [http://www.lifescientists.de/conference/herbertfroehlich.htm Fröhlich Biography] – International Institute of Biophysics

* The Fröhlich archive is currently being catalogued by the NCUACS [http://www.bath.ac.uk/ncuacs/AHRC.htm]