Kurt Magnus

Kurt Magnus (September 8, 1912 - December 12, 2003) was a German scientist, expert in the field of applied mechanics, a pioneer of mechatronics, modern navigation technology and inertial sensors.[1][2]

For a pioneer of German radio broadcasting, see Kurt Magnus (radio personality).

Kurt Magnus earned his doctorate in 1937 from the Georg-August University in Göttingen in the field of "force-coupled gyroscopes". In 1942 Magnus habilitated on the subject of "General movements of rigid bodies in moving reference systems".[1]

By the end of World War II during the Soviet Operation Osoaviakhim (a secret operation, which was part of the Soviet WWII reparations), on October 22 1946 he was shipped to the Soviet Union where he worked until 1953 at a secret facility codenamed NII-88 (NII stands in Russian for research&development institute) at its branch located on the Gorodomlya Island on Lake Seliger in Tver Oblast.[3][4]

After return to Germany he continued his scientific career. 1958 he took chair in what is now the University of Stuttgart and in 1966 in the Technical University of Munich.[1]

Awards

References
  1. Gedenktafel für Prof. Kurt Magnus enthüllt. Pionier der Mechatronik für sein Lebenswerk geehrt, Technische Universität München, July 20, 2018
  2. Werner Schiehlen, "From cybernetics to mechatronics: Seven decades of interdisciplinary engineering", PAMM · Proc. Appl. Math. Mech., vol. 19, 2019, pp. 1-4, doi:10.1002/pamm.201900108
  3. Anatoly Zak, "German A-4 team in Moscow" (retrieved October 13, 2022)
  4. Magnus, Kurt (1993). Raketensklaven. Deutsche Forscher hinter rotem Stacheldraht [Rocket slaves: German research behind red barbwire] (in German). Stuttgart: Deutsche Verlagsanstalt. pp. 202–211. ISBN 978-3421066350.
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