User:Tommyzulu/sandbox/Kurt Hoselitz

Kurt Hoselitz was born on July 18, 1916 in Vienna. From 1926 he went to the Realgymnasium, RG2, Kleine Sperlgasse, from which he graduated in 1934 In 1934 he enrolled at the University of Vienna to study Physics and Mathematics, attending lectures by Wirtinger and Furtwängler in mathematics; to the courses led by Ehrenhaft in Experimental Physics, Hans Thirring in Theoretical Physics, Karl Przibram in the Radium Institute. He also attended courses by Herman Mark and Schrödinger's course on the quantum theory. In 1937 he worked for Dr. Hans Motz, on research project in electron diffraction at the International Chemical Institute. He then started a dissertation on polymer compounds under Professor Mark but was forced to give up his studies because of the Nazi invasion. He was arrested in February 1937, suspected of involvement in political opposition to the Nazis but released without charge. However he was excluded from Austrian universities by the "Commissioner for the Maintenance of Discipline among Higher Education Students". He fled Austria in 1938 and got to England in June of that year. Professor A. M. Tyndall gave in a research place at Bristsol University and he began a dissertation on Ion Mobility in Noble Gases. He also attended lectures and completed courses by N. F. Mott and Cecil Powell, both Nobel laureates. The war conditions meant that the subject of his dissertation was changed to the study of the magnetic properties of iron-nickel alloys and was awarded a PhD in 1942. He was then recruited by the Permanent Magnet Assoociation in Sheffield and became their research director. He was a Fellow of the Institute of Physics a Fellow of the Institute of Metallurgists. In 1943 he married Annemarie Meyer, a fellow physicist and mathematician who was also a refugee. In 1946, he was recruited as a specialist with the British Intelligence Commission and spent six weeks researching the progress that Germany had made in permanent magnet technology during the second world war.

In 1952 he was recruited by the Mullard research laboratory (part of the Philips group) and became their research director in 1969. From 1964 he worked as an associate professor of the University of Surrey and a Fellow of the Institution of Electrical Engineers. He retired from Philips in 1976, and worked as a professor at the University of Sussex until 1981. He died on December 18 2010. Kurt and Annemarie Hoselitz had two children, Margaret (Gravelle) born 1945 and Stephen, born 1947.