Friedrich Beck
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The late Friedrich Beck as featured in the "Men Who Made a New Science" article published in the June 2008 Special Issue "Synaptic Quantum Tunnelling" of NeuroQuantology Journal
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| Born | Friedrich Hans Beck 16 February 1927 Wiesbaden, Germany |
| Died | 20 December 2008 (aged 81) |
| Nationality | German |
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Theoretical physics Particle physics Quantum field theory Biophysics |
| Alma mater | University of Göttingen (Ph.D.) |
| Doctoral advisor | Max von Laue |
| Influences | John Carew Eccles |
Friedrich Hans Beck (16 February 1927 – 20 December 2008) was a German physicist. His research interests were focused on superconductivity,nuclear and elementary particle physics,relativistic quantum field theory, and late in his life, biophysics and theory of consciousness.
Beck was born in Wiesbaden, Germany. He was the son of the businessman Fritz Beck and his wife Margaret Cron. Beck attended the Grammar School in Darmstadt and after that studied physics at University of Göttingen and Darmstadt University of Technology. As a student of Max von Laue, he performed research on superconductivity. In the spring of 1950 Beck started work on his PhD thesis entitled "The electrodynamic potential in the extended phenomenological theory of superconductivity", which he defended 1952 at University of Göttingen and obtained Doctor rerum naturalium.
From 1952 to 1954 Beck worked as an assistant at the Fritz Haber Institute in Berlin. Followed a research visit in the U.S. from 1954 to 1956 as a Research Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Then Beck went to the University of Munich where in 1958 he wrote a Habilitation thesis on nuclear reactions as a result of electromagnetic interactions. From 1958 to 1960 he worked as a lecturer both at the University of Munich and Heidelberg University.
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