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Robert Wichard Pohl (10 August 1884 – 5 June 1976) was a German physicist and professor of the
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. The physical institute in Göttingen led by Pohl was one of the first schools in
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and
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described Pohl as the "father of solid state physics.". See also: "Components of the solid state", Nevill Mott, New Scientist, Vol. 69, No. 993, p. 663-666 (1976) He is known for relating color in alkali metal halides with the presence of vacancies and F-centers (also called color centers), a type of
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. He also demonstrated the first
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based on color centers. The Gudden–Pohl effect and the Pohl torsion pendulum () are named after him.


Early years and education

Robert Wichard Pohl was born in Hamburg as the son of the naval engineer Eugen Robert Pohl and his wife Martha. She was the daughter of , founder of the private 'Dr. Wichard Lange School', and granddaughter of , who founded the first German kindergarten, together with
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. After completing the Dr. Wichard Lange School, Pohl entered the '
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' in 1895 and obtained his ''
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''. In the summer semester of 1903, he enrolled for studies of natural science at the
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. There, he met James Franck, who up until Franck's death in 1964 remained a close friend. In the winter semester of 1903, Pohl transferred to the
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, where he majored in physics. Beginning in the summer semester of 1904, he had already begun scientific work in the Physics Institute with Emil Warburg on the topic which became his doctoral thesis.''"Über die Einwirkung stiller elektrischer Entladung auf Ammoniak und Sauerstoff",'' R. Pohl, Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft, VIII. Jahrgang Nr. 2 (1906), p. 11, and dissertation with the same title (1906) His first publication dates from this period,''"Über das Leuchten bei Ionisation von Gasen. Zur Deutung der Versuche von Herrn B. Walter",'' R. Pohl, ''Annalen der Physik'' 4. Folge (1905), Vol. 17, p. 375 motivated by Bernhard Walter of the Hamburg State Physical Laboratory, where Pohl worked during his vacations, in particular attempting to observe the diffraction of X-ray radiation.''"Weitere Versuche über die Beugung der Röntgenstrahlen",'' B. Walter und R. Pohl, ''
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'' 3. Vol. 29 (1909), p. 331
Monorail: RWP demonstrates the stabilization of a monorail vehicle using a gyroscope (R. W. Pohl, Mechanics. all editions).


Career up to World War I

In the summer of 1906, Pohl completed his doctorate (Dr. Phil.) and took an assistantship in Berlin, working as instructor in the physics teaching labs under Heinrich Rubens, the Institute's director. He published joint articles with James Franck on ionic mobility in gases and on the propagation velocity of X-rays. From 1909 onward, he carried out research on the normal and the selective
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in metals, and from 1910 he worked with ,''"Die lichtelektrischen Erscheinungen",'' R. Pohl und P. Pringsheim, Verlag Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig 1914 on, among other things, the technically important problem of the fabrication of metal mirrors.''"Über die Herstellung von Metallspiegeln durch Destillation im Vakuum",'' ''Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft'' Band 14 (1912), S. 506 In 1910, his monograph on the remote transmission of images ''"Die elektrische Fernübertragung von Bildern",'' R. Pohl, Verlag Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig 1910 appeared, and in 1912 he completed the ''
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''. In an addendum, his ''Habilitation'' thesis ''"Die Physik der Röntgenstrahlen",'' R. Pohl, Verlag Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn, Braunschweig 1912 contains a discussion of
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's discovery of
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. Following his ''Habilitation'', Pohl began giving lecture courses on experimental physics, which also motivated him to start acquiring a private collection of lecture-demonstration apparatus. He also performed demonstration experiments at the meetings of the German Physical Society.Sitzung vom 20. Nov. 1914: "… Ferner demonstriert Hr. R. Pohl einige Vorlesungsversuche". Verhandlungen der Deutschen Physikalischen Gesellschaft, 30. Nov. 1914 By the outbreak of
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, he had published 54 scientific articles and three books. When war broke out, Pohl attempted unsuccessfully to volunteer for military service, but was refused for health reasons. His suggestion, together with Erich Regener, to set up and operate privately-funded diagnostic X-ray apparatus in two military reserve hospitals was gratefully accepted. In November 1914, he began cooperating with military radio operators on locating enemy transmission stations; this led to his appointment to a position as chief engineer with the rank of captain on the Board of Transport Examiners (VPK), which he held until the end of the war.


Professorship in Göttingen

In February 1916, Pohl received the offer of an associate professorship at the
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(as successor to Eduard Riecke), but due to the war, he was unable to accept the position until early 1919. In his baggage for the move to Göttingen were more than 40 boxes with apparatus for his lectures. Because of the offer of a professorship at the Technical University of Stuttgart in September 1919, Pohl was promoted to Full Professor in Göttingen in December 1920 and became director of the 1st Physical Institute there. In June, 1922, he was offered a position in Würzburg, which he also refused. Thus, he was a participant in the golden age of physics in Göttingen during the 1920s as one of the three full professors there, along with James Franck (director of the 2nd Physical Institute) and the theoretician
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. On Christmas 1922, Pohl married Tussa Madelung, the sister of Erwin Madelung, who was a research assistant in Göttingen when Tussa moved there from Strasbourg with her family in May, 1920. Robert and Tussa had three children: Ottilie, Eleonore, and Robert Otto, later physics professor at
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.


Color centers

file:n-p-Leitung.jpg, left, n- and p-type conduction: visualization of n-type conduction (at left by electrons, green) and of p-type conduction (at the right by holes, brown) in a KI crystal. The cathode (at left) and the anode (right) are Pt needles which have been melted into the crystal. From R.W. Pohl, Electromagnetism, from the 10th edition (1944) on. Photoelectric observations – however not from surfaces, as in Berlin, but rather in bulk insulators – were started by Pohl together with his assistant in 1919. (The research work from this period was described in detail in Biographische Notizen von Robert Wichard Pohl: ''"Erinnerungen an die Anfänge der Festkörperphysik in Göttingen und Lebenslauf und politische Haltung von R. W. Pohl"''
R. Pohl und H. Pick
(first part).) They discovered that diamond crystals become electrically conducting after irradiation with light.''"Über lichtelektrische Leitfähigkeit von Diamanten",'' B. Gudden und R. Pohl, im September 1919 '' Zeitschrift für Physik'' Band 3 (1920), p. 123 Later, they observed the same effect in the alkali halide
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; however only after it had been colored as a result of X-ray irradiation. Systematic observations of this coloration effect using artificially-prepared crystals ''"Electron conductivity and photochemical processes in Alkali-Halide crystals. R.W. Pohl, Proc. Phys. Soc. vol. 49, extra part, p. 3, 1937" and "Zusammenfassender Bericht über Elektronenleitung und photochemische Vorgänge in Alkalihalogenidkristallen",'' R. Pohl, ''
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'' Vol. 39 (1938), pp. 36-54
led to the discovery of color centers, which were investigated in detail in the following years.''"Ein Verfahren zur Herstellung großer Kristalle",'' S. Kyropoulos, '' Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie'' Vol. 154 (1926), p. 308 By inserting three electrodes into a
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crystal, Pohl and Rudolf Hilsch were able to demonstrate the first model of a
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based on color centers in 1938.''"Steuerung von Elektronenströmen mit einem Dreielektrodenkristall und ein Modell einer Sperrschicht",'' R. Hilsch und R. Pohl, ''Zeitschrift für Physik'' Vol. 111 (1938), p. 399 Alongside this research work in his own institute, Pohl collaborated with his scientific colleagues in a variety of ways. With the zoologist Alfred Kühn, he investigated the color perception of bees;''"Dressurfähigkeit der Bienen auf Spektrallinien",'' A. Kühn und R. Pohl, '' Die Naturwissenschaften'' Vol. 9 (1921), p. 1 for the chemist Adolf Windaus, he applied optical spectroscopy to the separation of
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from
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.''"Zum optischen Nachweis eines Vitamins",'' R. Pohl , ''Die Naturwissenschaften'', Vol. 15 (1927), p. 433 He helped the archeologist to photograph antique vases without disturbing highlights.''"Über die Vermeidung störender Reflexe beim Fotografieren griechischer Vasen",'' Kurt Müller, ''Nachrichten von der Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Altertumswissenschaften'', Vol. II, Nr. 5 (1937), p. 103 He gave active support to his student Hans Joachim Pabst von Ohain when the latter began the first experiments on jet propulsion following completion of his doctoral thesis, in the Physics Institute but privately financed.''"Meine Liebe war die reine Physik"''
(PDF; 2,1 MB), Gespräch mit H. J. Pabst von Ohain, Georgia Augusta Universität Göttingen, Spektrum, Vol. 2 (1995). p. 10


Introductory lecture courses on physics

For Pohl, the introductory lecture courses on physics were important from the very beginning; he frequently contributed new ideas for demonstration experiments, which he had developed and used in his lectures and textbooks, to the scientific literature. The first edition of his famous introductory texts in physics, his "''Electromagnetism''", was published in 1927. In 1930, the companion volume on "''Mechanics and Acoustics''" appeared, and it was extended from the third edition on to include "''Thermodynamics''". The third volume of the series, "''Optics''", was first published in 1941, and from the 9th edition in 1954 it was extended to include "Atomic Physics". An intense spatial optical-interference field, projected onto the wall of the lecture hall (R.W. Pohl, "Optik", 1941. Since the 22nd edition in 2006 titled "Elektrizitätslehre und Optik") A new chapter on "Quantum Optics of Solids" summarized the research work at Pohl's Göttingen Institute. The electrical properties of solids were treated in the volume on "''Electromagnetism''" as well, from the 15th edition (1955) on, including the results of Pohl's work in Göttingen. After his death in 1976, the three volumes were reduced to two and these chapters were removed. In their modern form, both volumes contain videos with all together 110 experiments, many carried out using Pohl's original apparatus. Volume two also includes a video with a biography of Pohl by Ekkehard Sieker (Video 1). It also includes a video on current amplification by a three-electrode crystal, and also an audio recording of the conferral of an honorary doctorate on
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in Göttingen by the Dean
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(1931). The later editions of the textbooks were edited by Klaus Lüders and Robert Wichard Pohl's son Robert Otto Pohl.


Post–World War II reception

Pohl's attitude towards the
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was described in his autobiographical résumé at the request of the occupying forces (second part). According to this source, he never joined a political party, and his attitude towards the National Socialists ranged from reserved to hostile; he was convinced from the beginning of the eventual defeat of Germany in
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(he had contacts to the Goerdeler Group; his contact, the teacher and lecturer Hermann Kaiser, was sentenced to death and was executed on the 23 January 1945 in Berlin-Ploetzensee). Following the war, he was active in re-establishing the University of Göttingen, until 1948 as a member of the Denazification Commission. The work of Pohl's Institute became internationally known only shortly before the outbreak of World War II, when Pohl and his research assistant Hilsch were invited to a conference on ''The conduction of electricity in solids'' at Bristol in 1937. In 1946, the first review article on color centers appeared in the USA.''"Color Centers in Alkali Halide Crystals",'' Federick Seitz, Reviews of Modern Physics Vol. 18 (1946), p. 384, Part II , Vol. 26 (1954), p. 7 This resulted in a 1951 invitation to the
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in Urbana, including visits to
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, the Naval Research Laboratory and other research institutes. On this occasion, Pohl once again encountered James Franck and they renewed their friendship which had been interrupted in 1933 by Franck's forced emigration.''"James Franck – Robert Wichard Pohl, Briefwechsel 1906 – 1964",'' Florian Ebner, Deutsches Museum preprint, Heft 8, http://www.deutsches-museum.de/verlag/aus-der-forschung/preprint In 1956, the first International Color Center Conference took place at
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; it was repeated at three-year intervals in the following years until 1977.''"Fifty years of colour centre physics",'' H. Pick, Journal de physique, Colloque C6, supplement au no.7, Tome 41 (1980), p. C6-1 Following his retirement in 1952, Pohl dedicated his time to improving his textbooks. In an interview with his former student Heinz Pick in 1974, he described some of his experiences at Göttingen in detail. Pohl always kept his institute small. Of his 55 German Ph.D. students 11 later became professors at German universities, of the 7 foreign Ph.D. students, 6 became professors abroad. In 1980 Nobel Prize in Physics laureate
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summarized the significance of Pohl's research at Göttingen: "R.W. Pohl of Göttingen is in my view the real father of solid state physics."


Honors and awards

* 1921 Member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences * 1928 Honorary doctorate (Dr.–Ing. e.h.) at the Technical University of Breslau * 1935 Membership in the Leopoldina, Halle (Academy of Sciences) * 1937 Member of the German Academy for Aeronautics Research * 1939 Dr. h.c. at the University of Sofia * 1945 Golden Society Medal of the Photographic Society in Vienna * 1949 Corresponding member of the
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* 1950 Corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences * 1953 Honorary Membership, American Association of Physics Teachers * 1954 Cross of Merit (first class) of the
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* 1957 Dr. rer. nat. h.c.,
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* 1959 Oersted Medal of the
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* 1959 Dr. med. h.c. at the
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* 1964 Dr. rer. nat. h.c.,
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* 1967 Cross of Merit (with star) of the Federal Republic of Germany * 1971 Medal of Honor of the City of
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* 1975 Phillip Matthäus Hahn Medal of the German Society for Chronometry Since 1979, the for experimental physics and physics didactics has been awarded annually by the German Physical Society. Also since 1979, the Robert Wichard Pohl Institute at the
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in
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, supported by the Volkswagen Foundation, has borne his name. A bronze memorial plaque was placed in 1995 on his former residence in Göttingen, at Klopstockstr. 4. Since 2007, the faculty of physics of the Göttingen University honors teachers for superior performance with the Robert Pohl medal.


Textbooks

* Einführung in die Physik, Springer, Berlin (three-volume editions) ** Volume 1 *** Mechanik und Akustik, (1st ed., 1930, 2nd ed., 1931) *** Mechanik, Akustik und Wärmelehre, (3rd/ 4th ed., 1941 – 18th ed. (R.O. Pohl, editor), 1983) ** Volume 2 *** Elektrizitätslehre, (1st ed., 1927 – 21st ed., 1975) ** Volume 3 *** Optik, (1st ed. 1940 – 8th ed., 1948) *** Optik und Atomphysik, (9th ed., 1954 – 13th ed., 1976) * Einführung in die Physik, Springer, Berlin (two-volume editions) ** Volume 1 *** Mechanik, Akustik und Wärmelehre, (19th ed. (K. Lüders und R.O. Pohl, eds.), 2004; 20th ed., 2009) *** Mechanik, Akustik und Wärmelehre, (21st ed. 2017) ** Volume 2 *** Elektrizitätslehre und Optik, (22nd ed. (K. Lüders und R.O. Pohl, eds., 2006); 23rd ed., 2010; 24th ed. 2017) :''Both volumes appeared as English translations in 2017 and 2018.''


References


Further reading


„''Göttinger Geschichten für das Erste Physikalische Institut''“
gesammelt von Manfred Achilles, 2012, (enthaltend auch viele Hinweise auf biographische Literatur über R. W. Pohl). * Roland Wittje: ''„Simplex Sigillum Veri“: Robert Pohl and Demonstration Experiments in Physics after the Great War'',in: Peter Heering, Roland Wittje (Hrsg.) „Learning by Doing“, Franz Steiner Verlag, 2011. * Jürgen Teichmann: „''Die Musik der Tatsachen''“, Physik Journal 8, S. 45 (2009)
Online
* * Frederick Seitz, Norman G. Einspruch: „''Electronic Genie''“, University of Illinois Press, 1998, Kapitel 4 * Gisela Oittner-Torkar, Jürgen Teichmann: „''Die Erklärung des Realkristalls durch Robert Wichard Pohl''“, in: Karl von Meyenn (Hrsg.) „''Die Großen Physiker''“, Band 2: ''von Maxwell bis Gell-Mann'', München: Beck 1997, S. 170–177 *
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, Ernest Braun, Jürgen Teichmann, Spencer Weart (Herausgeber): ''Out of the crystal maze. Chapters from the history of solid state physics'', Oxford University Press 1992 * Georg Busch: ''Early History of the Physics and Chemistry of Semiconductors'', European Journal of Physics, Vol. 10 (1989), S. 255–265 * Jürgen Teichmann: ''Zur Geschichte der Festkörperphysik, Farbzentrenforschung bis 1940'', Steiner Verl., Stuttgart (1988) * Michael Eckert, Helmut Schubert: ''Kristalle, Elektronen, Transistoren'', Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag, Reinbek 1986, S. 115–128 * Hans-Joachim Queisser: ''Kristallene Krisen'', Piper Verl. München, (1985), S. 66–80 * ''The Beginnings of Solid State Physics'', a symposium organized by Sir Nevill Mott, ed., Proceedings of the Royal Society London A, Band 371 (1980) *
Hans von Ohain Hans Joachim Pabst von Ohain (14 December 191113 March 1998) was a German physicist, engineer, and the designer of the first aircraft to use a turbojet engine. Together with Frank Whittle and Anselm Franz, he has been described as the co-invent ...
: ''The Evolution and Future of Aeropropulsion Systems'', in: Walter J. Boyne and Donald S. Lopez (Hrsg.): The Jet Age, Smithsonian Institution Press (1979), S. 25–46 * Heinz Pick: ''Structure of trapped electron and trapped hole centers in alkali halide „color centers“'', in: F. Abeles (Hrsg.) ''„Optical Properties of Solids“,'' North-Holland Publishing, Amsterdam (1972), S. 654–754.


External links

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Oral History Interview with Heinz Pick, including Pohl, AIP, 1982

Erich Mollwo, Vor- und Frühgeschichte der Festkörperphysik in Deutschland 1992, pdf

Interview with Robert Wichard Pohl by Thomas S. Kuhn and Friedrich Hund, June 25th 1963
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