Ludwig Flamm

Ludwig Flamm (born January 29, 1885 in Vienna ; † December 4, 1964 there ) was an Austrian physicist .

Life

Ludwig Flamm, who came from a family of watchmakers, studied physics at the University of Vienna and received his doctorate in 1909 under Friedrich Hasenöhrl with the dissertation Actual Wave Systems . Then he was assistant to Gustav Jäger at the Technical University of Vienna . In 1916 he completed his habilitation at the University of Vienna, received the venia legendi at the Technical University of Vienna and in 1919 an extraordinary professorship. From 1922 to 1956 Flamm was a full professor and head of physics at the Vienna University of Technology. He served as dean from 1929 to 1931 and as rector from 1930 to 1931. Wolfgang Kummer received his doctorate , among others .

Since 1928 Flamm was a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and from 1940 a full member .

Ludwig Flamm was married to Elsa, Ludwig Boltzmann's youngest daughter . His son Dieter Flamm (1936–2002) had been a professor at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Vienna since 1973.

Awards (excerpt)

• 1961: Austrian Decoration of Honor for Science and Art
• 1963: Erwin Schrödinger Prize
• In Vienna- Simmering (11th district) the Flammweg was named after him.

plant

Ludwig Flamm dealt with various areas of theoretical physics such as B. Schrödinger's wave mechanics and general relativity , so with a special Schwarzschild solution, the Flamm's paraboloid. In 1916 he first described solutions that lead to theoretical connections, so-called wormholes, in the space-time continuum .

Fonts

• The new views on space and time. The principle of relativity . Braumüller, Vienna 1915.
• Something about the structure of the atom . Braumüller, Vienna 1916.
• Contributions to Einstein's theory of gravity . Hirzel, Leipzig 1916.
• The basics of wave mechanics . In: Physikalische Zeitschrift 27 pp. 600–617, 1926.
• The basic ideas of wave mechanics . In: Electrical engineering and mechanical engineering . 51. 1933, 30. Mally, Vienna 1933.
• Algebraic electrodynamics . In: Meeting reports of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Math.-nat. Class 2a, 144 . Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky, Vienna 1935.
• The mechanism of electromagnetic waves . In: Meeting reports of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Math.-nat. Kl. Abt. 2a, Vol. 134, 1954, H. 1-10 . Springer, Vienna 1945.
• The line mechanics of electric field matter . In: Meeting reports of the Academy of Sciences in Vienna. Math.-nat. Kl. Abt. 2a, Vol. 155. 1947, H. 7-8 . Springer, Vienna 1947.
• On the 50th anniversary of Ludwig Boltzmann's death. Physikalische Blätter 12, 9 pp. 408-411, 1956.

literature

• Berta Karlik and Erich Schmid: Franz S. Exner and his circle . Vienna 1982, ISBN 3-70010437-5 .
• Felix Czeike : Historical Lexicon Vienna. Volume 2: De-Gy. Kremayr & Scheriau, Vienna 1993, ISBN 3-218-00544-2 , p. 321.
• Jean-Pierre Luminet: Flamm, Ludwig. In: Thomas Hockey et al. (Ed.): Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers , Springer, New York 2014, ISBN 978-1-4419-9916-0 , pp. 726-727. doi : 10.1007 / 978-1-4419-9917-7_9269

Web links

• Literature by and about Ludwig Flamm in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ludwig Flamm in the Vienna History Wiki of the City of Vienna

Individual evidence

1. ^ Ludwig Flamm @ Mathematics Genealogy Project
2. ↑ Ludwig Flamm onb.ac.at, accessed on September 22, 2011
3. ↑ Prize winners of the Erwin Schrödinger Prize ( Memento of the original from July 2, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. oeaw.ac.at, accessed on September 22, 2011 
4. ↑ The Birth of wormholes focus.aps.org, accessed 22 September 2011