Otto Laporte

Otto Laporte ( born July 23, 1902 in Mainz, † March 28, 1971 in Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA) was a physicist and fluid mechanics.

Laporte first studied in 1920 at the University of Frankfurt, one of his professors there, among others, Max Born. Born Laporte recommended to Arnold Sommerfeld, where he received his doctorate in Munich in 1924. In the group of Sommerfeld Laporte also worked with Werner Heisenberg, Gregor Wentzel, Karl Herzfeld, Paul Peter Ewald and Wolfgang Pauli.

1924 Laporte drew one of the first Rockefellar fellows in the United States, where he was until 1926 standards at the National Bureau of. Laporte in 1935 to U.S. citizenship. In 1928 he was at Kyoto University as a lecturer and in the same year at the Institute of Physical and Chemical Research in Tokyo. At the University of Michigan, he was a lecturer in 1926 ( Instructor ), 1927 Assistant Professor, Associate Professor in 1935 and Professor in 1945.

Laporte had many years of experience in Japan ( he was once again in 1933 and 1937 Lecturer in Tokyo, at the Imperial University ), and therefore from 1954 to 1956 and from 1961 to 1963 Scientific Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Tokyo. 1949/50, he was intelligence analyst for the U.S. Army in their European headquarters.

From 1944 Laporte devoted another area of fluid mechanics.

Laporte died in 1971 rapidly advancing cancer, so he was posthumously received as an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences.

Since 1972 Otto Laporte Memorial Lectures are held annually. Since 1972, gives the American Physical Society to Otto Laporte Award.