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]
Klemperer 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 father's cousin. [8] His uncle was the Romanist Victor Klemperer.
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]
Klemperer 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 father's cousin. [8] His uncle was the Romanist Victor Klemperer.