Re: Historical question - Jan Wichmann

Posted by Sudipta Maiti on
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According to Prof. Jurgen Wolfrum, Wichmann's Ph.D. advisor and currently a
visitor here, Wichmann left science without finishing his Ph.D. for personal
reasons. He had taken a leave for a few months during his Ph.D. period to
pursue the STED idea with Stefan Hell.
Sudipta

On Mon, 7 Nov 2011 21:49:36 +1100, Guy Cox wrote

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> I was doing a bit of historical research today and I looked up Jan
> Wichmann, of the historic first paper on STED (Hell & Wichmann, 1994,
> Optics Letters 19: 780-782).  To my surprise the Scopus database showed
> just one paper for Wichmann - that one, with more than 500 citations.
> This must be a pretty rare situation.  Does anyone know who Wichmann
> (from Turku in Finland) was and what became of him?
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> Guy
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