Theodor Förster
Encyclopedia
Theodor Förster was a German
physical chemist
.
Theodor Förster undertook a Ph.D. under Erwin Madelung
at the University of Frankfurt am Main (1933). In the same year he joined the Nazi Party and the SA
. After his habilitation (in 1940) he became a lecturer in Leipzig. Following his research and teaching activities in Leipzig, he became a professor at the State University of Poznan (1942).
From 1947 to 1951 he worked at the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics in Göttingen before becoming a professor at the University of Stuttgart.
Among his greatest achievements is the discovery (1946) of Förster resonance energy transfer.
The Förster radius is named after Theodor Foerster.
Germany
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physical chemist
Physical chemistry
Physical chemistry is the study of macroscopic, atomic, subatomic, and particulate phenomena in chemical systems in terms of physical laws and concepts...
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Theodor Förster undertook a Ph.D. under Erwin Madelung
Erwin Madelung
Erwin Madelung was a German physicist.He was born in 1881 in Bonn. His father was the surgeon Otto Wilhelm Madelung. He earned a doctorate in 1905 from the University of Göttingen, specializing in crystal structure, and eventually became a professor...
at the University of Frankfurt am Main (1933). In the same year he joined the Nazi Party and the SA
Sturmabteilung
The Sturmabteilung functioned as a paramilitary organization of the National Socialist German Workers' Party . It played a key role in Adolf Hitler's rise to power in the 1920s and 1930s...
. After his habilitation (in 1940) he became a lecturer in Leipzig. Following his research and teaching activities in Leipzig, he became a professor at the State University of Poznan (1942).
From 1947 to 1951 he worked at the Max-Planck-Institute for Physics in Göttingen before becoming a professor at the University of Stuttgart.
Among his greatest achievements is the discovery (1946) of Förster resonance energy transfer.
The Förster radius is named after Theodor Foerster.
Work
- Förster, Theodor: Fluoreszenz organischer Verbindungen. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1950. – Unveränd. Nachdr. d. 1. Aufl., im Literaturverz. erg. um spätere Veröff. d. Autors. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1982 – ISBN 3-525-42312-8
Literature
- A. Weller: Nachruf auf Theodor Förster. In: Berichte der Bunsengesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie 78 (1974) p. 969 [with Porträt].
- George Porter: Some reflections on the work of Theodor Förster. In: Die Naturwissenschaften 63 (1976) 5, p. 207–211.