Georg Hermann Quincke
Georg Hermann Quincke ( born November 19, 1834 in Frankfurt ( Oder), † January 13, 1924 in Heidelberg ) was a German physicist.
Life
Georg Hermann Quincke was a son of the secret Medizinalrats Hermann Quincke (1808-1891) in Berlin, his younger brother Heinrich Irenaeus Quincke (1842-1922) was a famous internist at the time. Georg Hermann Quincke's son Friedrich Quincke (1865-1934) was a chemist and also university teachers.
Quincke studied physics, chemistry and mathematics at Königsberg, Heidelberg and Berlin and received his doctorate there in 1858 capillary phenomena in mercury. In 1859 he completed his habilitation and became private. In 1863 he married Rebecca Riess ( 1836-1924 ), the daughter of the physicist Peter Theophil Riess. The Berlin University in 1865 he was appointed extraordinary professor of physics; he had more teaching positions at the Commercial Academy (1860-1872) and the School of Architecture ( 1862-1865 ). 1872 went Quincke as full professor at the University of Würzburg and finally came in 1875 as the successor of Gustav Kirchhoff returned to the University of Heidelberg, where he became professor emeritus in 1907.
In his scientific works, Quincke deal especially with the capillarity, acoustics, optics, electricity ( Quincke rotation) and magnetism. He discovered colloidal fluids and studied their electrical properties, and also conducted research on the molecular forces. 1866 constructed Quincke named after him Quinckesche interference tube for measuring acoustic wavelengths. His students include, among others, Albert Michelson, Ferdinand Braun and Philipp Lenard. Quincke was a member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen (1866 ), the Bavarian Academy of Sciences ( 1873), the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences ( 1879), the Royal Society, London ( 1879), the Royal Academy of Sciences and Fine Arts Belgium (1895 ), the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences ( 1909), the Academy of Uppsala and the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.
A road in the Heidelberg district of New Home, a street in the Frankfurt district of Markendorf and a street in Kiel bear his name.
Awards
- Honorary doctorate from the University of Würzburg
- Honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford
- Honorary doctorate from the University of Glasgow
- Honorary doctorate from the University of Cambridge
Writings
- Capillary phenomena at mercury, Dissertation, Humboldt -University of Berlin, 1858