Reinhold Rudenberg

Reinhold Rüdenberg (born 4 February 1883 in Hannover, † December 25, 1961 in Boston ) was a German electrical engineer and inventor.

Life

1903 doctorate Rüdenberg Wilhelm Friedrich Kohlrausch in Hanover. He worked from 1908 at the Siemens -Schuckert -Werke in Berlin as an engineer. In 1913 he enrolled at the Technical University of Berlin his habilitation thesis on the design of three-phase panels. Subsequently, he was there Honorary Professor of heavy current and high-voltage technology. He taught at Göttingen and Berlin. 1919 married Rüdenberg Lily Minkowski, daughter of the mathematician Hermann Minkowski. In 1923 he was with Siemens director and chief electrician of the newly established science department.

Rüdenberg received more than 300 patents. Special services were a variable-speed three-phase shunt commutator motor with brush adjustment and an electron, which he about the same time Ernst Ruska and Max Knoll, who also developed an electron microscope, built. As Reinhold Rüdenberg was a Jew, he had to leave the technical college and the Siemens -Schuckert -Werke 1935. He emigrated to Britain, where he worked until 1938 as a consulting engineer for the General Electric Co. Ltd.. and also lectured at the University of London. He then emigrated to the United States where he taught at Harvard University and MIT.

Honors

Works

• Dissertation for the Dr.- Ing - degree: energy of the eddy currents, Technical University of Hannover, 1903, when Wilhelm Friedrich Kohlrausch
• Electrical switching operations and related disorder phenomena in electrical power systems, second corrected edition 1923
• Transmission and reception of electric waves, Springer 1926
• Electrical traveling waves on lines and windings of power systems, Springer, Berlin / Gottingen / Heidelberg, 4th enlarged edition 1962
• Electrical switching processes, Springer; 5th revised edition, February 1988, ISBN 3540057668, ISBN 978-3540057666