Rudolf Tomaschek

Rudolf Karl Anton Tomaschek (born 23 December 1895 in Budweis, † February 8, 1966 in Breitbrunn am Chiemsee ) was a German experimental physicist. His academic achievements included work on phosphorescence, fluorescence, the tides, and the evidence of an ether. He was a supporter of German physics, which caused his suspension from his university job after the Second World War.

Life and work

From 1913 to 1918 Tomaschek studied at the German University of Prague. He received his doctorate in the early 20s under Philipp Lenard at the Ruprecht -Karls- University of Heidelberg, and Lenard was then assistant. He completed his Habilitation in 1924 at Lenard. In November 1926 Tomaschak went to the Technical University of Munich and in 1927 to the University of Marburg as associate professor of experimental physics. From 1934 to 1939 Tomaschek was Full Professor and Director of the Physics Institute at the Technical University Dresden. From 1939 to 1945 Tomaschek was Professor and Director of the Institute of Physics at the Technical University of Munich. In 1940 he was appointed to pressure from the Bavarian Ministry of Culture as a full member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

Tomaschek led from 1921 a series of measurements - repetition of the Michelson -Morley experiment and the Trouton -Noble experiment - which should provide evidence of an ether, but the results were all negative, thus ( unintentionally for the critics of the theory of relativity Tomaschek ) were added to a further confirmation of the theory of relativity by Albert Einstein.

Tomascheck in 1933 a member of the SA, the Nazi Party in 1937. 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.

Tomaschek was a supporter of German physics, an anti- theoretical and anti-Semitic backlash against modern physics. In 1945, he was dismissed by the Allied occupying powers from his position at the Technical University of Munich, where Georg Joos 1946 and was succeeded by.

From 1948 to 1954 Tomaschek was employed by the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company ( AIOC ) in England, where AIOC 1954 British Petroleum was. In 1954 he was in Breitbrunn am Chiemsee president of the permanent tide Commission.