Karl Scheel
Karl Franz Christian Scheel ( born March 10, 1866 in Rostock, † November 8, 1936 in Berlin) was a German physicist. He prepared the introduction of the thermodynamic temperature scale.
In 1885 he passed the Abitur at the Great City School Rostock. He studied inter alia in Rostock and Berlin Hermann von Helmholtz, Hermann garlic, August Kundt and Jean Pernet ( 1845-1902 ). The doctorate in 1890 went on "The expansion of the water with the temperature by the thermometric method " in the private laboratory of Pernet.
He became a member of the Physical Society of Berlin and joined the Physikalisch-Technische Reich (PTR ) as " Scientific laborer " a. From 1900 Scheel was managing director and secretary of the German Physical Society (DPG). In 1913 he was Privy Councillor and Head of the Physics and Technology Department of the PTR.
In 1926 he published the (blue ) "Handbook of Physics" ( with Hans Geiger ), the " Physical Handwörterbuch " ( Berlin with Arnold) and directed the "Literary Department " of the PTR. In 1919 he also took over the editorship of the world's major " Zeitschrift für Physik " . A holiday spent Scheel often in Ilmenau in the Thuringian Forest, where he was almost 50 times to visit since 1886. Since 1932 there is a memorial on the Hertzer Promenade at him.
The performance level of the physics of the 1920s in Germany was seen in the overview publication: " When Julius Springer appeared ... in the years 1926 -1928, edited by Hans Geiger and Karl Scheel, ' under the editorial assistance of Richard greaves, Stuttgart, Fritz Henning (1877 -1958 ), Berlin, Heinrich Konen, Bonn, Hans Thirring, Vienna, Friedrich Trendelenburg, Berlin, Wilhelm Westphal, Berlin ', the ' Encyclopedia of Physics ' in over 20 volumes. In the first volume Edmund Hoppe, Göttingen wrote about the history of physics until 1895 ( discovery of X-rays ), Karl Scheel on Physical literature, Heinrich Emil Timerding, Braunschweig, research and teaching, Reinhard Mecke ( 1895-1969 ) and A. Lambertz, Bonn, lecture on art. The editors of the volumes 20, ' was for ' light as a wave motion 'and 21, light and matter Heinrich Konen / Bonn. It wrote, inter alia, Rudolf Frerichs / Berlin, Coll Ann Arbor on line spectra and intensity rules, Pascual Jordan / Hamburg on energy levels in spectra, Alfred Landé / Tübingen Zeeman effect, Rudolph Minkowski / Hamburg via the Stark effect, Leonhard Grebe / Bonn X-ray spectra, R. Mecke / Bonn continuous gas spectra, Peter Pringsheim / Berlin luminescence and Raman spectra. "
At his funeral, he was praised by Walter Grotrian as " faithful Eckart of the German Physics". From his estate, he donated the Karl Scheel Prize, which is since 1958, awarded for outstanding research achievements in the field of physics to scientists after graduation belonging to the Berlin Physical Society, and the Karl Scheel student price, since 1994 is for the best performance in high school physics, awarded to his former high school in Rostock, the inner-city high school Rostock.