August Föppl

August Otto Foppl ( born January 25, 1854 in United -Umstadt, Hesse, † October 12, 1924 in Sparrow land ) was a German structural engineer and university professor.

Life

Foppl studied civil engineering at the Polytechnic School of Darmstadt and taught first at the Baugewerkschule in wood Minden and trade school in Leipzig.

1893-1922 was August Foppl Professor of Engineering Mechanics and Graphical Statics at the Chair Engineering Mechanics and Graphical Statics (Today's Department of Materials Science and Mechanics of Materials ) of the Technical University of Munich and the Mechanical- Technical Laboratory (now the State material testing for mechanical engineering ).

He was a founding fellow of the Darmstadt fraternity Germania / Old Darmstadt fraternity Germania in 1869, while studying in Darmstadt.

Foppl conducted experiments to gyroscopes and vibration. In theory, he led the Foppl such as a clamp.

Arnold Sommerfeld describes him as a " well-deserved researchers and teachers from all fields of applied mechanics" and points out that Foppl was the first of the Heaviside vector analysis had taken in Germany. His introduction to Maxwell's theory of electricity (Leipzig 1894) was the first German -language textbook to Maxwell's theory of electrodynamics. This textbook also became an important source of Albert Einstein with his reflections on the electrodynamics of moving bodies, or for the special theory of relativity.

One of his first PhD was Ludwig Prandtl, who later became his son was.

In 2002, TU Munich, the Foppl Medal, will be awarded to the employee for special engagement in vocational training.

Family

He married Emilie Schenck ( 1856-1924 ). Their children were Gertrude (∞ Ludwig Prandtl ), Otto Foppl ( 1885-1963; professor of engineering mechanics at the Technical University Braunschweig), Else (∞ Hans Thoma, 1887-1973, professor of electrical engineering in Karlsruhe, Germany ) and Ludwig Foppl ( 1887-1976, a mechanical engineer ).