Walter Gordon (physicist)

Walter Gordon ( born August 3, 1893 in Apolda, † December 24, 1939 in Stockholm ) was a German physicist.

Life

Walter Gordon was born born as the son of businessman Arnold Gordon and his wife Bianca Brann. The family was of Jewish descent and lived in St. John Alley 5 In the first years of life of Walter Gordon, the family moved to Switzerland. In 1900, he attended school in St. Gallen, in 1915 studied at the University of Berlin mathematics and physics and a doctorate in 1921 at the Max Planck. 1922 Gordon worked as an assistant to Max von Laue at the University of Berlin. After several months in Manchester with William Lawrence Bragg and at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Fiber Chemistry in Berlin- Dahlem in 1925, Gordon went in 1926 to the University of Hamburg and habilitated there in 1929. 1930 he was appointed professor in 1932, he married the Hamburg Lobbe Gertrude Berg. Under pressure from the political situation in Germany Gordon moved to in 1933 to Stockholm. At the university, he worked in the field of mechanics and mathematical physics.

Walter Gordon has drawn up together with Oskar Klein the relativistic Klein-Gordon equation whose validity had to be but limited to particle with spin zero.

The city Apolda honored her son with the naming of a square with his name.