Erich Fischer

Erich Horst Fischer ( born July 3, 1910 in Olsztyn, East Prussia, † 1969) was a German experimental physicist who worked on the construction of nuclear reactors.

Fischer studied physics from 1929 to 1935 at the University of Bonn, the University of Munich and the Friedrich Wilhelm University in Berlin. He received his doctorate in Berlin in 1935 under Walther Nernst and A. Deubner. From 1935 to 1936 he was a teaching assistant there from Walter Friedrich. In 1937 he transferred to the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics, where he was a research assistant of Peter Debye and Werner Heisenberg. In 1939 he completed his habilitation in 1942 he became a lecturer at the Friedrich- Wilhelms- University of Berlin.

As a member of the uranium project (1939-1945), he helped the rate of neutron multiplication in heterogeneous uranium - moderator combinations to determine. In this capacity, he published five articles in the classified as top secret nuclear physical research reports. In 1944, he joined as part of the outsourcing of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics to Hechingen in the Hohenzollern country. He was particularly involved in the construction of the research reactor Haigerloch.

After the war, he helped to build up the Hechinger part of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics again. In 1948 he was a lecturer in experimental physics at the University of Tübingen, two years later he became also an adjunct professor. In 1951 he was appointed professor at the University of Ankara. From 1956 on, he was employed at the newly founded GKSS Research Centre in Geesthacht, where he conducted research into materials for the construction of nuclear reactors.