Short biography and Publications by and about Otto Stern
Short biography
| 1888 | Born on 17 February 1888 in Sohrau |
| 1912 | PhD with Otto Sackur in Breslau |
| 1912 | Work with Albert Einstein at the Charles University in Prague |
| 1913 | Work with Albert Einstein at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich |
| 1913 | Habilitation in Zürich |
| 1914-1922 | Lecturer at the University of Frankfurt, with interruptions (war, Berlin, Rostock) |
| 1914-1918 | Military service |
| 1915 | Re-habilitation to Frankfurt |
| 1918-1919 | Work at the Berlin University |
| 1921-1922 | Associate professor for experimental physics at the University of Rostock |
| 1923-1933 | Professor in Hamburg, Director of the Institute for Physical Chemistry at the University of Hamburg dismissed on 30.9.1933 at his own request in order to avoid dismissal as "non-Aryan" |
| 1930-1931 | Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the University of Hamburg |
| 1933 | Emigration to the USA |
| 1933-1946 | Research professor of physics at the Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh |
| 1943 | Nobel Prize for physics |
| 1944-1945 | Participation in the Manhatten Project (exact scope and time frame are still unknown) |
| 1945 | Member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA |
| 1960 | Honorary doctorate from ETH Zurich |
| 1969 | died on 17 August 1969 in Berkeley |
Furhter Information
- Otto Stern 1888-1969, von Immanuel Estermann
- Otto Stern 1888-1969, A Biographical Memoir by Emilo Segrè
- Entry in the Hamburg catalogue of professors
- Lecture by Horst Schmidt-Böcking: Otto Stern - pioneer of quantum physics
Publications
(Nur die Publikationen aus der Hamburger Zeit bis 1933 werden im Gesamtindex der Chemie berücksichtigt.)
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