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Two former professors of physics at Giessen university contributed significantly to the development of the Ioffe Institute: Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen as a teacher of Abram Ioffe, and Wilhelm Hanle, whose effect found various applications, e.g., in the spectroscopy of hot electrons in low-dimensional structures. A few examples will illustrate how topics of their scientific work found a continuation in the research activities at Giessen, but also in the collaboration between Giessen and Saint Petersburg. They range from sodium chloride, the old Röntgen/Ioffe material where we could prove the existence of an unusual isotope effect in nickel-doped crystals, over level-crossing experiments in gases, to GaAs/AlAs superlattices, where level-anticrossing spectroscopy of excitons reveals detailed information about recombination processes and interface quality. A short summary of the efforts to keep the traditionally close and good relations between Russian and German physics vital completes the report.
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Fiz. Tverd. Tela (St. Petersburg) 41, 818–821 (May 1999)
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Scharmann, A. From Röntgen to Ioffe, from Giessen to Saint Petersburg — Relations between Russian and German physics. Phys. Solid State 41, 738–741 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1134/1.1130860
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