Heinrich Ott (23 March 1894 – 27 November 1962) was a German physicist.

Education

Ott studied under

Arnold Sommerfeld Arnold Johannes Wilhelm Sommerfeld, (; 5 December 1868 – 26 April 1951) was a German theoretical physicist who pioneered developments in atomic and quantum physics, and also educated and mentored many students for the new era of theoretica ...

at the

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...

. His thesis was on the theory of crystal structure, and he was awarded his doctorate in 1924. He stayed on as Sommerfeld’s assistant. Subsequently, he completed his

Habilitation Habilitation is the highest university degree, or the procedure by which it is achieved, in many European countries. The candidate fulfills a university's set criteria of excellence in research, teaching and further education, usually including a ...

and was a

Privatdozent ''Privatdozent'' (for men) or ''Privatdozentin'' (for women), abbreviated PD, P.D. or Priv.-Doz., is an academic title conferred at some European universities, especially in German-speaking countries, to someone who holds certain formal qualific ...

until 1929.

Selected literature

*Heinrich Ott ''Das Gitter des Aluminiumnitrids (AlN)'', ''Zeitschrift für Physik'' 22 (1) 201-214 (1924). The author is cited as being at the Institute for Theoretical Physics of the University of Munich. Arnold Sommerfeld was director of the Institute for Theoretical Physics. The article was received on 5 January 1924 and published in December. As cited i
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1894 births 1962 deaths 20th-century German physicists {{germany-physicist-stub