Wilhelm Walcher was a German experimental physicist.
15 Facts About Wilhelm Walcher
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Wilhelm Walcher was a president of the German Physical Society and a vice president of the German Research Foundation.
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Wilhelm Walcher helped found the Society for Heavy Ion Research and the German Electron Synchrotron DESY.
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Wilhelm Walcher was one of the 18 signatories of the Gottingen Manifest.
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Wilhelm Walcher received his doctorate in 1937, at the Technische Hochschule Berlin, under Kopfermann.
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In 1937, Wilhelm Walcher became a teaching assistant to Hans Kopfermann, who had taken an appointment at the Christian-Albrechts-Universitat zu Kiel; Wilhelm Walcher was his teaching assistant there until 1942.
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At Kiel, Wilhelm Walcher developed a mass spectrograph for both isotope separation and determination of the degree of enrichment of uranium samples.
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From 1942 to 1947, Wilhelm Walcher was a Privatdozent at the University of Gottingen.
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From 1947 to 1978, Wilhelm Walcher was an ordentlicher Professor of experimental physics and director of the Physikalischen Institut at Philipps-Universitat Marburg.
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Wilhelm Walcher was Rektor of the University from 1952 to 1954.
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From 1960 to 1961, Wilhelm Walcher was president of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft.
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Wilhelm Walcher was the vice president of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft from 1961 to 1967.
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Wilhelm Walcher was a co-initiator of the Gesellschaft fur Schwerionenforschung in Darmstadt and the Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron in Hamburg.
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In 1957, Wilhelm Walcher was one of the 18 signers of the Gottinger Manifest, which opposed the rearming of Germany with nuclear weapons.
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Wilhelm Walcher received honors for his contributions to Germany and the German physics community:.