Theodor des Coudres

Theodor des Coudres ( born March 13, 1862 in Veckerhagen, Weser, † October 8, 1926 in Leipzig ) was a German physicist.

Life

Theodor des Coudres was the son of the mountain Council Julius des Coudres and his wife Anna Henrietta Rosenstock. His younger brother, Richard of Coudres, later became president of the Central German Federal singer; paternal uncle was the painter Ludwig des Coudres.

1881 Des Coudres began at the University of Geneva to study science and medicine and moved to Leipzig and Munich later. At the Humboldt University in Berlin in 1887 he was able to successfully complete his studies with a dissertation on the optical constants for mercury with Prof. Hermann von Helmholtz.

1889 Theodor des Coudres got a job at the University of Leipzig as an assistant to Prof. Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann. His research culminated in 1891 in his habilitation. In 1895 he was appointed to the University of Göttingen, where he was appointed four years later to the "Institute of Applied Electricity ". 1901 Des Coudres moved to the University of Würzburg, where he became an associate professor of the newly established " chair of theoretical physics."

1903 brought to Des Coudres as successor of Prof. Ludwig Boltzmann at the University of Leipzig, where he worked until his death. Theodor des Coudres died at the age of 64 years on October 8, 1926 in Leipzig. The publisher Georg Hirzel and physicist Otto Wiener wrote notable obituaries for Theodor des Coudres.

Des Coudres worked among other things, metal reflection, the Kerr effect, high pressure physics and certain as the first the specific charge and the speed of alpha particles.

Worth mentioning

Theodor des Coudres suffered enormous writer's block and could this only during longer journeys counteract with the railroad.