About Claus Jönsson
Lived 1930 – 2024 (aged 94). Claus Jönsson was a German physicist and university teacher.
Claus Jönsson (26 May 1930 – 25 August 2024) was a German applied physicist who specialized in electron microscopy.
Jönsson was born in Charlottenberg, Berlin, Germany in 1930 and grew up near Hamburg. He matriculated at the University of Tübingen to study physics in 1953. Due to a critical shortage of student housing, he had to rent a space 12 km away. something previously thought to be unfeasible in practice. Jönsson's original paper was published in English for the first time in 1974 on the American Journal of Physics.
Even so, in 2002, Jönsson's work was named "the most beautiful experiment" by readers of Physics World.
He served as a professor at the Institute for Applied Physics at Tübingen from 1978 to his retirement in 1995.
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Who was Claus Jönsson?
German physicist (1930–2024)
When was Claus Jönsson born?
Claus Jönsson was born on 26 May 1930 in Charlottenburg.
When did Claus Jönsson die?
Claus Jönsson died on 25 August 2024 in Tübingen.
What was Claus Jönsson's occupation?
Claus Jönsson was a physicist and university teacher.
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Claus Jönsson was German.
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