Kurd von Mosengeil

Kurd Friedrich Rudolf von Mosengeil, also Curd Friedrich Rudolf von Mosengeil ( born March 7, 1884 in Bonn, † September 5, 1906 at Wildgall in Rieserfernergruppe ) was a German physicist.

Life

Kurd from Mosengeil was a student of Max Planck. The latter had taken in 1905 as a first for Albert Einstein's theory of relativity in a colloquium at the Humboldt -Universität zu Berlin party. In the following years, Planck published several works in which he expounded further conclusions from Einstein's theory. He was interested in his assistant Dr. Max von Laue and his students Kurd from Mosengeil for habilitate as the first of the special theory of relativity or a PhD.

Due to the accidental death Mosen Geils during a mountain hike in South Tyrol in September 1906 he could no longer continue his research. As can be seen from a letter of Max Planck, Wilhelm Wien on 26 January, 1907, he left the dissertation Mosen Geils of Max von Laue cut and prepare it for printing in the annals of physics. He personally vouched for their content and believed in the permanent value of Mosen Geils investigations. Thus Max Planck was proved right when Mosen Geils 1907 published dissertation was groundbreaking for further research in the field of relativistic thermodynamics, where Mosengeil linked the work of Friedrich Hasenohrl with those by Hendrik Antoon Lorentz and Albert Einstein to special relativity.