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Klaus Halbach
Halbach c. 1980s
Born(1925-02-03)February 3, 1925
Wuppertal, Weimar Republic
DiedMay 11, 2000(2000-05-11) (aged 75)
Berkeley, California, U.S.
Alma materUniversity of Basel
Known forHalbach array
Scientific career
FieldsAccelerator physics, nuclear physics
Institutions
Thesis Über eine neue Methode zur Messung von Relaxationszeiten und über den Spin von Cr53  (1954)

Klaus Halbach (February 3, 1925 – May 11, 2000) was a German-born American applied physicist, engineer and inventor, who was a staff scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is best known for his contributions to magnetic system designs for accelerators and nuclear instrumentation. Halbach array is named after him.

Biography[edit]

Klaus Halbach was born on (1925-02-03)February 3, 1925 in Wuppertal, Weimar Republic.[1] After joining Luftwaffe in 1943, he trained as a fighter plot but never saw combat. Relocating to Grenzach-Wyhlen following the bombing of Wuppertal in World War II, he has married Ruth Halbach in 1945. He was captured as a prisoner of war near Munich in the same year, and returned to Grenzach following his release.[2]

He received a PhD degree in nuclear physics from the University of Basel in 1954, after which he has worked as an instructor at University of Fribourg for three years. His PhD studies concerned the newly-emerging area of nuclear magnetic resonance; his work brought him into contact with Felix Bloch, who received 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics for his contributions to this field.[2] In 1957, he came to the United States under a Swiss National Science Foundation grant to work at Stanford University as a research associate under Bloch.[1] Following his work at Stanford University, he briefly returned to University of Fribourg to start a plasma physics group. In 1960, he joined the fusion research group at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where he spent the remainder of his professional career.[1][3]

During his tenure, he has made contributions the design of the synchrotron Omnitron, which formed the basis of Bevalac.[3] Working on numerous accelerator designs, he is best known for his contributions to the design of magnetic systems such as wigglers and undulators.[1][4] Halbach and his colleague and son-in-law Ron Holsinger developed the widely-used POISSON package of simulation software for magnetic system design.[1] He also contributed to the development of other accelerator design software, such as PANDIRA, used for certain magnet designs, and SUPERFISH, used for microwave cavities.[5] In the late 1970s, he proposed a permanent magnet array configuration for obtaining multipole magnetic fields;[6][7] this configuration, known as Halbach array, is widely used in different devices in addition to accelerators, such as permanent magnet motors[8] and MRI machines.[9]

Despite his official retirement from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in 1991, he continued his research on magnet design and trained students in his field.[1] In 1995, a symposium on magnet technology was held by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in honor of his 70th birthday.[10] He died on May 11, 2000 in Berkeley, California, due to complications from prostate cancer. He was survived by his wife Ruth Halbach, daughter, and three grandchildren.[1][3]

Selected publications[edit]

Journal articles[edit]

  • Halbach, K. (August 1960). "Modulation-effect corrections for moments of magnetic resonance line shapes". Physical Review. 119: 1230. doi:10.1103/PhysRev.119.1230.
  • Halbach, K. (February 1964). "Matrix representation of Gaussian optics". American Journal of Physics. 32: 90–108. doi:10.1119/1.1970159.
  • Halbach, K. (June 1979). "Strong rare earth cobalt quadrupoles". IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. 26 (3): 3882–3884. doi:10.1109/TNS.1979.4330638.
  • Halbach, K. (February 1980). "Design of permanent multipole magnets with oriented rare earth cobalt material". Nuclear Instruments and Methods. 169 (1): 1–10. doi:10.1016/0029-554X(80)90094-4.
  • Halbach, K. (August 1981). "Physical and optical properties of rare earth cobalt magnets". Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research. 187 (1): 109–117. doi:10.1016/0029-554X(81)90477-8.
  • Halbach, K. (April 1985). "Application of permanent magnets in accelerators and electron storage rings". Journal of Applied Physics. 57: 3605–3608. doi:10.1063/1.335021.

Reports[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f g Winick, Herman; Brown, Karl; Goldberg, David (2001). "Obituary: Klaus Halbach". Physics Today. 54 (4): 89–90. doi:10.1063/1.1372126.
  2. ^ a b The Art and Science of Magnet Design: Volume 1 (Report). University of California, Berkeley. February 1995. Retrieved June 24, 2024.
  3. ^ a b c Yarris, Lynn (May 19, 2000). "Klaus Halbach, Revered Magnet and Accelerator Design Expert". Sciencebeat. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Retrieved June 24, 2024.
  4. ^ Winick, Herman (2015). "Klaus Halbach, Undulator Pioneer". Synchrotron Radiation News. 28 (4): 26–27. doi:10.1080/08940886.2015.1059234.
  5. ^ Warren, J. L.; Boicourt, G. P.; Menzel, M. T.; et al. (1985). "Revision of and Documentation for the Standard Version of the Poisson Group Codes". IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science. 32 (5): 2870–2872. doi:10.1109/TNS.1985.4334210.
  6. ^ Halbach, K. (February 1980). "Design of permanent multipole magnets with oriented rare earth cobalt material". Nuclear Instruments and Methods. 169 (1): 1–10. doi:10.1016/0029-554X(80)90094-4.
  7. ^ Merritt, B. T.; Post, R. F.; Dreifuerst, G. R.; et al. (February 3, 1995). Halbach array motor/generators: A novel generalized electric machine. Halbach Festschrift Symposium. Berkeley, California.
  8. ^ Zhu, Z. Q.; Howe, D. (July 2001). "Halbach permanent magnet machines and applications: a review". IEE Proceedings - Electric Power Applications. 148 (4): 299–308. doi:10.1049/ip-epa:20010479.
  9. ^ Wald, Lawrence L.; McDaniel, Patrick C.; Witzel, Thomas; et al. (September 2020). "Low-cost and portable MRI". Journal of Magnetic Resonance Imaging. 52 (3): 686–696. doi:10.1002/jmri.26942. PMC 10644353.
  10. ^ Carr, Roger (1995). "The Halbach symposium on magnet technology". Synchrotron Radiation News. 8 (2): 7–8. doi:10.1080/08940889508602793.
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