Egon Schweidler
Egon Schweidler to 1918 Knights of Schweidler ( born February 10, 1873 in Vienna, † February 10, 1948 in Seeham in Salzburg ) was an Austrian physicist.
Life
Egon Schweidler was born in 1873, son of the court and court lawyer Emil Schweidler in Vienna. After studying physics and mathematics, he received his doctorate in 1895 with a dissertation "On the internal friction of mercury and some amalgams " and became an assistant to Franz Serafin Exner - II at the Institute of Physics. He habilitated in 1899 at the University of Vienna and in 1911 was appointed associate professor. From 1911 to 1926 he was Chair of Experimental Physics at the University of Innsbruck, where he was dean in 1924 and 1925/26, rector. In 1926 he returned to the Ordinariate in the Second Physics Institute of the University of Vienna in the Turkish road to Vienna as part of his vocation. Here, he was at the same time as secretary (1929-1933), General Secretary (1933-1938) and Vice President (1939-1945) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences. In 1933 he was also elected Chairman of the German Physical Society.
Importance
Especially from a historical perspective, science has to be mentioned in the field of atmospheric electricity its large number of works. Schweidlers scientific work was early (1907 ) were honored with the award of " Baumgartner Prize " at the Vienna Academy of Sciences for the "Study on the anomalies in the behavior of dielectrics ". He pointed in 1899 with Stefan Meyer including the statistical nature of radioactive decay and the magnetic distractibility of beta radiation as fast electrons after. He is counted along with Stefan Meyer of the pioneers of research on radioactivity. His predicted fluctuations (1905 ) in the ionization by radioactive radiation were the starting for a large number of theoretical and experimental studies, the Max von Laue in his 1947 published " History of Physics " (written in 1946 during his forced stay in the English Farm Hall ) as "progress of incalculable importance " designated.
He is buried in an honorary grave dedicated to the Döblinger Cemetery (Group 35, number 7, number 8) in Vienna.
Works
- The atmospheric electricity, 1903 ( with H. Mach)
- Standard work on radioactivity, ( with S. Meyer ), 1916 (2nd edition 1927)