Max Jakob

Max Jakob ( born July 20, 1879 in Ludwigshafen, † January 4, 1955 in Chicago ) was a German thermodynamics.

Life

The son of a Jewish teacher studied 1897-1903 at the Technical University of Munich, where he received his doctorate in 1905. Between 1903 and 1906 he was employed as an assistant at the Laboratory for Technical Physics Professor garlic.

After his time in Munich, he worked for 3 years at AEG in Berlin, then in Frankfurt and Baden, he was still working for a short time.

In 1910 he joined the Physikalisch-Technische Reich Institute and became an assistant in the department of heat and pressure, which was headed by Ludwig Holborn. From 1914 he was professor of the Imperial Institute, Head of the Laboratory of Thermal Engineering and the Laboratory of viscosity.

In 1934 he was dismissed because of his Jewish ancestry, to which he emigrated to the United States.

In 1936, he started there a series of lectures on heat transfer.

In 1937 he became a professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology and at the same time Consultant at Armour Research Foundation in Chicago.

Max Jacob died unexpectedly due to a heart failure on January 4, 1955.

The ASME donated the 1961 Max Jakob Memorial Award, which is awarded annually for outstanding achievements in the field of heat transfer.

Furthermore, the named Jakob number for him.