Leander Ditscheiner

Leander Ditscheiner (born 4 January 1839 in Vienna, † February 1, 1905 ) was an Austrian physicist.

During his high school years in the Scots fields junior high school showed his tendency to crystallography. From 1856 to 1861 attended Ditscheiner the Technical University in Vienna. During this time he published his first scientific paper in 1857 already, before he enrolled in 1862 at the University of Vienna and subsequently in 1864 at the University of Heidelberg. Only a year later, Ditscheiner habilitated as a lecturer in mathematical physics and crystallography at the Technical University in Vienna. Ditscheiner 1889 elected rector of the Technical University. At the same time he taught color theory and color chemistry at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. As groundbreaking for physical research in particular his works are in the fields of optics and electricity. For his important publication "On the path difference and the intensity ratio of the with the reflection on glass gratings occurring parallel and perpendicular to the incidence plane polarizing beam ", 1871 published in the meeting reports of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna, he received the major Ignaz L. Lieben prize. In recognition for his important research results Ditscheiner was elected in 1880 corresponding member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences in Vienna. In 1891 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina. Ditscheiner died in 1905 after a long serious illness. The name of the Ditscheinergasse in Vienna's Landstrasse is a reminder of this great scientist and his contributions to physics research.