Friedrich Arnold "Fritz" Bopp was a German theoretical physicist who contributed to nuclear physics and quantum field theory.
15 Facts About Friedrich Bopp
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Friedrich Bopp worked at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut fur Physik and with the Uranverein.
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Friedrich Bopp was a professor at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and a President of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft.
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From 1929 to 1934, Bopp studied physics at the Goethe University Frankfurt and the University of Gottingen.
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Friedrich Bopp completed his Diplom thesis in 1933 under the mathematician Hermann Weyl.
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In 1937, Friedrich Bopp completed his doctorate on the subject of Compton scattering under the physicist Fritz Sauter.
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In 1941, Friedrich Bopp completed his Habilitationsschrift under Erwin Fues on the subject of a consistent field theory of the electron.
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From 1941 to 1947, Friedrich Bopp was a staff scientist at the Kaiser-Wilhelm Institut fur Physik, located in Berlin-Dahlem.
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Friedrich Bopp worked on the German nuclear energy project; collaborators on aspects of this project were for a time known collectively as the Uranverein.
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Friedrich Bopp did not get along with them and described the initial French policy objectives towards the KWIP as exploitation, forced evacuation to France, and seizure of documents and equipment.
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From 1946 to 1947, Friedrich Bopp was a teaching assistant at the University of Tubingen.
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From 1947 to 1950, Friedrich Bopp was an extraordinarius professor and in 1950 an ordinarius professor of theoretical physics at the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.
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From 1964 to 1965, Friedrich Bopp was the President of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft.
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Friedrich Bopp was one of the 18 signers of the Gottinger Manifest in 1957, which was opposed to the rearming of Germany with nuclear weapons.
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Friedrich Bopp had published all but Volume 5 of his lectures.