Hellmut Fritzsche (20 February 1927 – 17 June 2018)[1] was a German-born American physicist.
He earned his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1954 where in the same year he became Instructor and in 1955 Assistant Professor.
During his career at the University of Chicago he was director of its Materials Research laboratory 1973–77 and chairman of its Physics department 1977–86.
During his chairmanship he planned and oversaw the building of the Kersten Physics Teaching Center.
Some of the major accomplishments of his group were: Fritzsche published 280 papers in scientific journals and wrote or edited 13 books.