Wolfgang Demtröder (b. 5 September 1931 in

Attendorn Attendorn () is a German town in the Olpe district in North Rhine-Westphalia. As of 2019 it had a population of 24,264. History The town's location was favoured by the good climate in the Attendorn-Elsper Limestone Double Basin (''Attendorn- ...

) is a German physicist and spectroscopist. He is the author of several textbooks on laser

spectroscopy Spectroscopy is the field of study that measures and interprets electromagnetic spectra. In narrower contexts, spectroscopy is the precise study of color as generalized from visible light to all bands of the electromagnetic spectrum. Spectro ...

and a series of four textbooks on

experimental physics Experimental physics is the category of disciplines and sub-disciplines in the field of physics that are concerned with the observation of physical phenomena and experiments. Methods vary from discipline to discipline, from simple experiments and o ...

. His books entitled ''Laserspektroskopie'' and ''Laser Spectroscopy'' are considered classics in the field. From 1970 til 1999, he was ordinary professor at

Kaiserslautern University of Technology Technical University of Kaiserslautern (German: ''Technische Universität Kaiserslautern'', also known as TU Kaiserslautern or TUK) was a public research university in Kaiserslautern, Germany. On January 1, 2023, the university was merged wit ...

. Kaiserslauterer Physik-Professor Dr. Wolfgang Demtröder emeritiert
/ref> Awarded the

Max Born Prize The Max Born Medal and Prize is a scientific prize awarded yearly by the German Physical Society (DPG) and the British Institute of Physics (IOP) in memory of the German physicist Max Born, who was a German-Jewish physicist, instrumental in the ...

in 1994.

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German spectroscopists 20th-century German physicists Living people Laser researchers 1931 births Academic staff of the Technical University of Kaiserslautern {{Germany-physicist-stub