Otto Ernst Heinrich Klemperer Explained

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. His thesis advisor was Hans Geiger. He continued to work with Geiger in the 1930s.

Klemperer was co-inventor in 1928 of the Geiger-Klemperer ball counter,^[2] "the first major advance in the design of proportional counters".^[3] 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.^[4] He was later an assistant professor and Reader in Physics at Imperial College, London,^[5] where he wrote the third edition of his book on electron optics with Mike Barnett.^[6]

The conductor Otto Klemperer was his father's cousin.^[7] His uncle was the Romanist Victor Klemperer.

Bibliography

• Book: Klemperer. Otto. Barnett. M.E.. Electron optics. Cambridge monographs on physics. 1971. 3. Cambridge University Press. 978-0-521-17973-7.
• Book: Klemperer, Otto. Electron physics: the physics of the free electron. 1972. Butterworths.

Notes and References

1. Book: Klemperer, Victor . Deníky 1933-1941: Chci vydat svědectví. 2002 . Litomyšl . 978-80-7185-492-0 . 528.
2. Frame . PW . A history of radiation detection instrumentation . Health Physics . 88 . 6 . 613–37 . 2005 . 15891457 . 10.1097/00004032-200506000-00008.
3. Book: Ryan. Michael T.. Poston, Sr.. John W.. A Half Century of Health Physics: 50th Anniversary of the Health Physics Society. 2006. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. 0-7817-6934-5. 106.
4. Klemperer . O. . On the Radioactivity of Potassium and Rubidium . 96293 . Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences . 148 . 865 . 638–648 . 1935 . 10.1098/rspa.1935.0038. 1935RSPSA.148..638K . free .
5. Book: Chambers, William. Chambers's encyclopaedia. 5. 1973. International Learning Systems. xiii.
6. Web site: Sir Charles Oatley and the Scanning Electron Microscope: II. Research directed by W. C. Nixon. Smith. K. C. A.. B. C. Breton. Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics. Elsevier. 16 January 2011.
7. Book: Gay, Hannah. The history of Imperial College London, 1907-2007: higher education and research in science, technology and medicine. https://books.google.com/books?id=x4u4ikoj1M8C&pg=PA261. 2007. World Scientific. 978-1-86094-709-4. 261. Imperial College during the Second World War.