Education
His Doctor of Philosophy thesis (1958) dealt with the surface tension of water and aqueous solutions.
physicist university professor
His Doctor of Philosophy thesis (1958) dealt with the surface tension of water and aqueous solutions.
He developed from this investigations an electromagnetic shock wave generator for lithotripsy of kidney stones.
In 1964 he defended habilitation thesis concerning experimental investigations regarding shock waves in liquids in the acoustical frequency domain.
Göttingen Academy of Sciences]
corresponding member of Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, since 1988.