Rudolf Seeliger

Rudolf Seeliger ( born November 12, 1886 in Munich, † January 20, 1965 in Greifswald ) was a German physicist who ( mainly theoretical ) dealt with gas discharge physics and established an appropriate school at the University of Greifswald.

Life

Seeliger was the son of the later director of the Munich Observatory of Hugo Seeliger and studied from 1906 to 1909 at the University of Tubingen, Heidelberg and Munich. In 1910 he received his PhD under Arnold Sommerfeld in Munich ( " The theory of the conduction of electricity in dense gases ", Annals of Physics, Bd.33, 1910, p.319 -380 ). Then he was at the Physico- Technical Institute (PTR ) in Berlin and at the same time a lecturer at the University of Berlin. In 1918 he became associate professor at the University of Greifswald in John Stark and 1921, he became a full professor of theoretical physics. In 1940 he was the Director of The Physics Institute and 1946 to 1948 he was rector of the University of Greifswald. From 1949 he was a follower of Paul Schulz ( of there 1948, the high-pressure xenon lamp developed ) in Greifswald director of the " Institute of Gas Discharge Physics" of the Academy of Sciences, the predecessor of today's Leibniz Institute for Plasma Science and Technology.

During the investigation of the passage of electron beams ( cathode rays ) by gases with Ernst Gehrcke of the PTR they made in the spring of 1912 observations ( " On the Shining of the gases under the influence of cathode rays ", proceedings of the German Physical Society Bd.15, 1912, S .534 ), the later of James Franck and Gustav Hertz in the Franck -Hertz experiment ( correctly interpreted ) one of the pillars of quantum theory were (Franck and Hertz received the Nobel Prize for it in 1925 ).

Seeliger wrote the 1921 article " electron theory of metals " in the Encyclopedia of Mathematical Sciences. He was also editor of the popular physics textbook by Ernst Grimsehl.

Seeliger was a member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin. In 1950 he was awarded the National Prize for Physics in the GDR.

Writings

  • Introduction to the physics of gas discharges, Leipzig, Barth, 1927
  • With Georg Mierdel General characteristics of the self- discharge, arc discharge, Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft. , 1929
  • Applied nuclear physics; an introduction to the theoretical foundations, Springer, 1938, 1944
  • The basic relations of the new physics, Barth, 1948
  • Carl Ernst Heinrich Grimsehl, Walter Schallreuter physics textbook Vol 1 to 4, Teubner, 1951-1959 and more
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