Robert Wichard Pohl

For his son, the German-American physicist, see Robert Otto Pohl.
Robert Wichard Pohl
Robert Pohl, Göttingen 1923
Born
Robert Wichard Pohl

(1884-08-10)10 August 1884
Hamburg, German Empire
Died5 June 1976(1976-06-05) (aged 91)
Göttingen, West Germany
NationalityGerman
Known forPohl's pendulum

Robert Wichard Pohl (10 August 1884 – 5 June 1976) was a German physicist at the University of Göttingen. Nevill Francis Mott described him as the "father of solid state physics".[1]

  1. ^ "Mott's Memories" (PDF). See also: "Components of the solid state", Nevill Mott, New Scientist, Vol. 69, No. 993, p. 663-666 (1976)