Hans Wolter

Hans Wolter ( born May 11, 1911 in Pomerania, Pomerania; † August 17, 1978 in Marburg ) was a German physicist.

Hans Wolter studied physics in Tübingen and Kiel 1929-1933, 1933-1939 taught at high schools, worked 1939-1945 at news - attempt command of the Imperial Navy of broadband antennas, founded in 1945 his own laboratory in 1947 went as a lecturer at the University of Kiel in 1955 and followed a professorship at the University of Marburg, where he founded the Institute of Applied Physics as a Full Professor. He retired in 1976 and died in 1978. Hans Wolter worked alone and with students theoretically and experimentally on a variety of problems in applied physics, with work on optics of thin metal layers, phase contrast microscopy, microwave antennas, Schlieren method, information theory. He conceived a physical theory of colors. Wolter 1952 published a paper in which he describes imaging mirror systems for X-ray radiation by utilizing the total reflection at grazing incidence on metal surfaces. From Wolter even intended for microscopic applications, found the systems he projected as a Wolter telescopes widely used in X-ray astronomy.

• Physicist ( 20th century)
• German
• Born in 1911
• Died in 1978
• Man