Fritz Sauter

Fritz Eduard Josef Maria Sauter ( born June 9, 1906 in Innsbruck, † 24 May 1983; Garmisch -Partenkirchen ) was an Austrian theoretical physicist.

Sauter studied 1924-1928 mathematics and physics at the University of Innsbruck, where he received his doctorate in 1928 at Arthur March with a thesis on diffraction theory. After that, he was assistant to Arnold Sommerfeld in Munich. 1931 to 1934 he was assistant to Richard Becker at the TH Berlin -Charlottenburg. From 1933 he was a lecturer there. After Max Born in 1933, marketed as director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Göttingen by the Nazis, Sauter became his interim successor until Richard Becker 1936 was officially appointed. Sauter was from 1939 professor at the Albertus University of Königsberg, and from 1942 to 1945 at the Ludwig- Maximilians- University of Munich. 1950/1 he was provisional director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the Technical University of Hanover and then taught in Göttingen, Bamberg, before he became a professor at the University of Cologne in 1952. He retired in 1971.

Sauter addressed in the 1930s with earlier quantum electrodynamics and with theoretical solid state physics. He wrote books on differential equations in theoretical physics and was co-editor of Sommerfeld's lectures on partial differential equations and by Richard Becker's "Theory of Electricity".

His students include Fritz Bopp and Herbert Kroemer.

It should not be confused with the Viennese chemist Fritz Sauter ( b. 1930 ).

Writings

• Differential equations of physics, de Gruyter, 1950, 4th edition 1966
• With Richard Becker theory of electricity, three volumes, Teubner 1957-1969
• From the physical hypothesis to the law of nature, Krefeld 1955