Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels

Friedrich Carl Alwin Pockels ( born June 18, 1865 in Vicenza, † August 29 1913 in Heidelberg ) was a German physicist and brother of Agnes Pockels.

Life

Friedrich Pockels studied physics in 1883 at the Technical University of Braunschweig, the University of Freiburg and Göttingen and received his doctorate in 1888 at the University of Göttingen. He was in 1889 the examinations for teachers in secondary schools and in the same year assistant at the Physical and Mineralogical Institute of the University of Göttingen. In 1892, Pockels habilitated as a lecturer in Physics.

In 1896 he was associate professor of physics at the Technical University Dresden and worked from 1900 to 1913 as a budget moderately associate professor of theoretical physics at the University of Heidelberg.

His name is connected with the Pockels effect, which is used in the Pockels cell.

Writings

• Friedrich Pockels, On the Influence of elastic deformations, specially one-sided pressure on the optical behavior of a crystalline body, Dissertation, Göttingen, 1889
• Friedrich Pockels, on the influence of the electrostatic field on the optical behavior of the piezoelectric crystals, Göttingen, 1894
• Friedrich Pockels, textbook crystal optics, Teubner, Leipzig, 1906