Ernst Gehrcke

Ernst Johann Gehrcke ( born July 1, 1878 in Berlin, † January 25, 1960 near Berlin) was a German physicist. Gehrcke counted alongside Paul Weyland, Philipp Lenard and Johannes Stark of the most famous Antirelativisten, physicists and chemists who rejected the theory of relativity.

Life

Gehrcke was from 1901 to 1946 employees of the Physico- Technical Institute in Berlin. He has held positions there as an assistant, technical laborer, head of the Laboratory, Department Head and Director of the optical department. In parallel, he pursued his college career: 1904 Habilitation and profession as private. Then came 1921 appointment as associate professor.

Gehrcke has published numerous works, including the "theory of atomic nuclei ", " mass suggestion of the theory of relativity ", "Handbook of physical optics " and " physics and epistemology ." After the Second World War he worked at the University of Jena. As of 1949, in West Berlin. From 1950 he worked at the German Office of Weights and Measures of the GDR in Berlin, most recently as an independent research assistant.

He died on January 25, 1960 in near Berlin.

Writings

  • Handbook of physical optics. Barth, Leipzig from 1927 to 1928.
  • Critique of the theory of relativity: Collected Writings on absolute and relative motion. Meusser, Berlin 1924.
  • The mass suggestion of relativity: Cultural Historical- psychological documents. Meuser, Berlin 1924.
  • Glow discharge - The positive column - (Handbook of Radiology, Volume 3 ). Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, Leipzig, 1916.
  • The rays of positive electricity. Hirzel, Leipzig, 1909.
  • The application of interference in spectroscopy and metrology. Vieweg, Braunschweig, 1906.
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