Maximilien Toepler

Maximilian August Toepler ( born June 25, 1870 in Graz, † March 14, 1960 in Langenbrück / Saxony ) was a German professor of High Voltage Engineering.

Life

His father, August Toepler was a professor of physics in Graz and in 1876 in Dresden.

Maximilian studied in Leipzig Meteorology and electrical engineering, where him, like his father, the physics of the storm and the high-voltage discharges particularly interested. In 1898 he discovered the layered forms of discharge in air, the so-called clump bow.

In 1900 he completed his habilitation at the Technical University of Dresden with a thesis on the ranges of existence of the various forms of discharge in air: "On the dependence of the character of continuous electrical discharge in atmospheric air from the discharge spaces continuierlich supplied electricity which, together with an appendix to the knowledge of ball lightning ".

In 1906 he made ​​empirically on the radio Toeplersche law for the calculation of the threshold voltage of discharges. By 1909, he worked with Carl Mueller.

In 1910 he became professor of theoretical physics. He was a major player in the work on standardization of the measuring spark gaps, he calculated the front elevation of surge waves and made ​​suggestions for isolation arrangements for impulse tests. In addition, he was an advisor to the china factory Hermsdorf - Schomburg insulators GmbH ( Hescho ) in Hermsdorf ( Thuringia).

In November 1933, he was one of the signatories of the commitment of the professors at German universities and colleges to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi state.

After his retirement in 1935, he remained active and found among other things that the flashover voltage can be lowered by exposure of the radio link. When, after the Second World War there was shortages of teachers, he took until 1951 to teach at the Technical University of Dresden.

Publications

  • Stratified duration of discharge in the open air ( Tufts arc and Righische ball sparks); In Abhdlgn. the Naturw. Total Isis Dresden, pp. 1-26, 596-601 1898
  • About the dependence of the character of continuous electrical discharge in atmospheric air from the discharge space continuirlich of electricity supplied, together with an appendix to the knowledge of ball lightning; Annals of Physics, vol 307, p 560-635, 1900
  • Behavior of the tufts arc in the magnetic field; Annals of Physics, vol 305, p 680-684, 1899
  • About the internal structure of Gleitbüscheln and the laws of their filaments, Annals of Physics, vol 358, p 217-234, 1917
  • Determining the change in volume during melting for a number of elements; Annals of Physics, vol 289, p 343-378, 1894
  • Over the radio voltages; Annals of Physics, vol 324, p 191-209, 1906
  • For knowledge of the radio sound waves of electrical oscillations; Annals of Physics; Vol 332, pp. 1051-1058, 1908
  • Creepage on very thin ( mica ) plates, Annals of Physics, vol 328, p 867-874, 1907
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