Anton Lampa

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Anton Lampa

Anton Lampa (born January 17, 1868 in Budapest , † January 28, 1938 in Vienna ) was an Austrian physicist .

Life

Anton Lampa studied mathematics and physics at the University of Vienna. In 1892 he received his doctorate with the dissertation "on the absorption of light in cloudy media", which he carried out under the guidance of Franz-Serafin Exner in the Physical Cabinet (board member: Viktor von Lang ). His habilitation followed in 1904, and in 1909 he was appointed to the vacant chair for experimental physics and head of the Physics Institute of the German University in Prague as the successor to Ernst Lecher . In 1904 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . Here he campaigned for Albert Einstein to be employed . After the First World War Lampa refused to stay in Prague and returned to Vienna in 1918 without a corresponding position as a private lecturer. He became the first consultant in the department for popular education in the Ministry of Education and from 1921 worked as a university professor at the University of Vienna. 1921 appointed associate professor. In 1934 he retired. He was buried at the Hütteldorfer Friedhof in an honorary grave .

meaning

The physicist Anton Lampa was one of the first to recognize the great importance of the relativity theory of the young Albert Einstein. It was thanks to Lampa's participation that Albert Einstein was appointed to a full professorship at the German University in Prague in 1911. He was strongly influenced by Ernst Mach , to whose philosophy he wrote a well-known introduction as part of his biography about Mach. Lampa constructed an apparatus for generating and measuring extremely short electromagnetic waves, and v. a. with the diffraction behavior of electrical waves. His work on the refractive index of some substances for very short electrical waves received international attention.

In addition to his scientific work, Anton Lampa dedicated himself in particular to adult education. Until 1929 he took a critical part in the annual roundtables of the Hohenrodter Bund and was President of the Vienna Urania from 1927 to 1936 . The Lampaweg in Donaustadt has been a reminder of the physicist and popular educator since 1973 . In 1901 he was one of the co-founders of the Vienna Volksheim, the forerunner of the Vienna adult education centers.

Fonts

  • Forces of nature and laws of nature. Common Lectures, 1895;
  • Ernst Mach, 1918;
  • The scientific fairy tale. A contemplation, 1919;
  • The Kant-Laplace theory , 1925;
  • Physics in Culture, 1925.

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  1. ↑ https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:9398-N46H-S - Antonius Eremita Josephus Lampa, Terézváros
  2. ^ Anton Lampa grave site , Vienna, Hütteldorfer Friedhof, Group 2, No. 120.
  • Berta Karlik and Erich Schmid: Franz S. Exner and his circle , publishing house of the Austrian Academy of Sciences 1982
  • Andreas Kleinert : Anton Lampa: 1868–1938. A biography and bibliography of his publications , 1985.

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personal data
SURNAME Lampa, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian physicist
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1868
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH January 28, 1938
Place of death Vienna