Kurt Schmeiser
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Kurt Schmeiser (26 June 1911 – 1979) was a German physicist who contributed early research into cosmic rays and extensive air showers.
Schmeiser completed his undergraduate studies at Heidelberg University. In May 1936 he became a doctoral student at the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear Physics (at the time the Institute for Physics at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research), studying cosmic rays under Walther Bothe.[1] He received his doctorate in 1938 after publishing his dissertation on so-called "hard cosmic-ray showers".[2] In this paper, Schmeiser and Bothe were the first physicists of the time to observe that the transition curves reported by Bruno Rossi implied that cosmic-ray showers must also occur in air, and not just in materials at the ground such as lead.[3]
Schmeiser was the recipient of a German Research Foundation scholarship and remained at the institute until 1939, after which he worked at IG Farben in Oppau.[1] After World War II, he returned to the institute and authored a number of papers and books about radioisotopes.
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kant, Horst (2007). "Von der Lichttherapie zum Zyklotron. Das Institut für Physik im Heidelberger Kaiser-Wilhelm-Institut für medizinische Forschung bis 1945" [From light therapy to cyclotron. The Institute for Physics in the Heidelberg Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Medical Research until 1945]. Dahlem Archival Discussions (in German). Berlin: Archives of the Max Planck Society. Band 13: 49–92. ISSN 1431-6641. Retrieved 2024-04-24.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ Schmeiser, K.; Bothe, W. (1938). "Die harten Ultrastrahlschauer". Annalen der Physik (in German). 424 (1–2): 161–177. Bibcode:1938AnP...424..161S. doi:10.1002/andp.19384240119.CS1 maint: Unrecognized language (link)
- ↑ Watson, Alan (2019). "The highest-energy cosmic-rays – the past, the present and the future". EPJ Web Conf. 210: 00001. arXiv:1901.06676. Bibcode:2019EPJWC.21000001W. doi:10.1051/epjconf/201921000001.
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