6533b85bfe1ef96bd12bbde7

RESEARCH PRODUCT

Hückel’s Professional Career in National Socialist Germany

subject

description

When the National Socialists took over the government in early 1933, Huckel was a lecturer of “chemical physics” at the Wurttemberg polytechnic (Technische Hochschule) in Stuttgart, at the peak of his productivity as a researcher and a teacher. On May 8, 1933 he submitted the fourth and final part of his opus magnum on the quantum theory of unsaturated and aromatic compounds to the editorial offices of Zeitschrift fur Physik.He was planning to offer a number of different courses that academic year, from April 1, 1933 to March 31, 1934.In addition he intended to continue the “Seminar on atomic physics,” that he had been offering annually since the academic year 1931/1932 together with the full professor of theoretical physics Peter Paul Ewald.