Adolf Scheibe

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Adolf Scheibe (born March 9, 1895 in Zeulenroda ; † April 20, 1958 in Berlin ) was a German physicist and the developer of the quartz clock in Germany as well as the discoverer of the inconsistency of the earth's rotation speed .

life and work

Adolf Scheibe was the son of the businessman Friedrich Scheibe. He attended elementary and secondary school in Zeulenroda until 1908, graduated from high school in Plauen in 1914 and studied with Conrad Röntgen among others in Munich . The course was soon interrupted by the First World War. Disk was at the front for three years and continued his studies after the end of the war in Munich, before moving to Jena after a few semesters. In 1923 he received his doctorate in high frequency technology from the University of Jena under Max Wien . In 1925 he joined the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt (PTR) in Berlin as a research assistant . In 1927 Erich Giebe and Scheibe showed that quartz rods can be excited not only to longitudinal vibrations, but also to bending and torsional vibrations. In 1928, as a member of the government, he succeeded Giebe as head of the PTR's high-frequency laboratory. From 1930, Scheibe developed the PTR quartz watches together with Udo Adelsberger . In 1935, Scheibe and Adelsberger postulated that the astronomical length of day was inconstant.

At Scheibe's instigation, the activities of his laboratory were classified as "war important" very quickly after the beginning of the Second World War, which meant that his employees were released from military service. With the onset of area bombing on Berlin, he moved the high-frequency laboratory to Zeulenroda in 1943 . When they withdrew from Thuringia , the Americans deported Scheibe, the laboratory facilities and his employees and their families to their headquarters in Heidelberg . When the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt was established in Braunschweig in 1950 , the high-frequency laboratory also moved there.

Grave of Adolf Scheibe in the Heerstrasse cemetery in Berlin-Westend

After the war, Scheibe played a leading role in the establishment of the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (initially Physikalisch-Technische Anstalt) in Braunschweig, in 1950/1951 as its acting president. In 1953 he became the leading director of Department I Mechanics at PTB. In 1955 he became Vice President of PTB. Disk was a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen and since 1957 a member of the Braunschweig Scientific Society .

From 1955, Scheibe worked as an honorary professor at the Technical University of Braunschweig .

He was married to Alice Kirchner and had four children, two sons and two daughters with her.

Adolf Scheibe died unexpectedly in April 1958 at the age of 63 in Berlin. His grave is in the state-owned cemetery Heerstraße in Berlin-Westend (burial location: 18-L-24/30). His wife Alice Scheibe b. Kirchner was buried at his side in 1987.

literature

Web links

Commons : Adolf Scheibe  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary by Max Kohler. Retrieved on January 4, 2013 ( Memento from February 25, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 609 kB)
  2. ^ Hans-Jürgen Mende : Lexicon of Berlin burial places . Pharus-Plan, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86514-206-1 . P. 494.
personal data
SURNAME Disk, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist, inventor and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 9, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Zeulenroda
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1958
Place of death Berlin