Albert Gockel
Albert Wilhelm Friedrich Eduard Gockel (born November 27, 1860 in Stockach , † March 4, 1927 in Freiburg , Switzerland ) was a German physicist .
Life
Gockel was born on November 27, 1860 as the son of the grand ducal postal cashier Albert Gockel and his wife Wilhelmine, née Trolle, in Stockach, which is now part of Baden-Württemberg .
He studied in Freiburg im Breisgau , Würzburg and Karlsruhe and received his doctorate in Heidelberg in 1885 . In 1896 Albert Gockel resigned from higher education in Baden and moved to Freiburg in Switzerland as a private lecturer. At the local university , he worked from 1903 to 1910 as an associate professor of physics and meteorology , then - until his death - as a full professor of astronomy , electrochemistry and photochemistry .
When he married Paula Baumhauer in 1902, Albert Gockel became the son-in-law of the mineralogist Heinrich Adolph Baumhauer (1848–1926),
Works (selection)
- 1895: The thunderstorm
- 1908: Air electricity
- 1911: Air-electrical measurements during a balloon flight
- 1914: The radioactivity of soil and springs
- Theories of creation history
literature
- Hans Wagner: The physicist Albert Gockel . In: Hegau Library . tape 11 . Association for the history of the Hegaus e. V., Radolfzell 1967, p. 85 f .
Web links
- Hubert Schneuwly: Gockel, Albert. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland . December 18, 2018 , accessed December 12, 2018 .
- Hansruedi Völkle: " Albert Gockel and Cosmic Radiation " at the Swiss Physical Society
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gockel, Albert |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gockel, Albert Wilhelm Friedrich Eduard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 27, 1860 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockach |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 4, 1927 |
| Place of death | Friborg , Switzerland |