Anton Oberbeck

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Anton Oberbeck (born March 25, 1846 in Berlin ; † October 23, 1900 there ) was a German physicist and university professor .

Life

After attending the Royal French Gymnasium in his hometown, Anton Oberbeck studied physics and natural sciences in Berlin and Heidelberg . In the laboratory of Heinrich Gustav Magnus , he carried out experimental investigations on the "so-called magnetization constants", which also became the subject of his dissertation , with which he obtained his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Berlin. At Easter 1870 he started the educational probationary year at the Sophien-Realgymnasium in Berlin, but served in the Franco-Prussian War from July of the same year and after his return worked as a teacher at the institute mentioned from May 1871 to 1878. He also found time at the Physics Institute of the University of Berlin, under the direction of Hermann von Helmholtz , to carry out investigations.

In 1878 Oberbeck qualified as a private lecturer in physics on the "propagation of magnetic induction in soft iron" at the University of Halle and was appointed associate professor of physics there the following year. In 1885 he followed a call from the University of Greifswald as a full professor for experimental and theoretical physics. There he was entrusted with the management of the new building of the physics institute that his predecessor Ottokar von Feilitzsch had founded and which was available in 1891. In 1895 he moved to the University of Tübingen as a full professor of physics and succeeded Ferdinand Braun . As early as 1884 he had turned down an appointment at the University of Tübingen when it came time to succeed Friedrich Eduard Reuschs .

Anton Oberbeck dealt in his scientific work with hydrodynamics , heat theory and meteorology , but his main research area was electricity . The Boussinesq approximation used for hydrodynamic problems is based on a work by Oberbeck published in 1879, which Joseph Boussinesq took up again 24 years later; one therefore speaks of the Oberbeck-Boussinesq approximation. On December 3, 1878 he was accepted into the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina .

Oberbeck suffered from rheumatism from 1898 and had to break off his lectures towards the end of 1899 before he was put into early retirement on October 1, 1900 and died on October 23.

Works (selection)

  • About the so-called magnetization constants . In: Johann Christian Poggendorff (Ed.): Annals of Physics and Chemistry . 5th row, 15th volume (135th volume; of the whole series 211th volume), No. 1 . Publisher by Johann Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig 1868, p. 74–98 , urn : nbn: de: bvb: 12-bsb10130448-3 ( reader.digitale-sammlungen.de - dissertation).
  • About the passage of electricity through gases . In: Annual report on the Sophien-Realschule, with which the director invites you respectfully to the public examination to be held on April 6 in the morning from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and in the afternoon from 2 to 4 a.m. as well as to the dismissal of high school graduates on April 7 at 10 a.m. Th. Bach . Printed by Franz Krüger'schen Buchdruckerei, Berlin 1876, p. 3–32 , urn : nbn: de: hbz: 061: 1-494453 .
  • About the heat conduction of the liquids when considering the currents due to temperature differences . In: Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann (Ed.): Annals of Physics and Chemistry . New episode, Volume 7 (of the full episode 243rd Volume), No. 6 . Publisher by Johann Ambrosius Barth, Leipzig 1879, p. 271-292 ( gallica.bnf.fr ).
  • About light and luminaires. Inaugural speech for the takeover of the full professorship in physics at the University of Tübingen on November 14, 1895 in the ballroom of the university building . Published by Franz Pietzcker, Tübingen 1895.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ School News . In: Annual report on the Sophien-Real-Schule with which the director, Professor H. Bertram, invites you respectfully to the public exam taking place on Friday, March 22nd in the afternoon from 2–5 . Printed by Franz Krüger'schen Buchdruckerei, Berlin 1872, p.  36 ( books.google.de ).
  2. ^ Armin Hermann , Armin Wankmüller : Physics, Physiological Chemistry and Pharmacy at the University of Tübingen . Ed .: Wolf von Engelhardt . JCB Mohr (Paul Siebeck), Tübingen 1980, ISBN 3-16-442801-4 , p.  31 .
  3. ↑ Christoph Clauser: Oberbeck-Boussinesq approximation . In: Introduction to Geophysics . global physical fields and processes in the earth. 2nd, updated and corrected edition. Springer Spectrum, Berlin and Heidelberg 2016, ISBN 978-3-662-46883-8 , p. 359-361 .
personal data
SURNAME Oberbeck, Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1846
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH October 23, 1900
Place of death Berlin