Bernardo Dessau

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Bernardo Dessau (born August 13, 1863 in Offenbach am Main , † November 17, 1949 in Perugia ) was an Italian physicist of German origin.

Life

Dessau, born Bernhard Dessau, was the son of the orthodox rabbi and teacher Samuel Dessau (1826–1904) and the younger brother of the ancient historian Hermann Dessau .

Since 1884 he studied physics in Berlin and Strasbourg , where he received his doctorate in 1886 under August Kundt . From 1889 he worked at the Universities of Padua and Bologna , where he was an employee of Augusto Righi . He completed his habilitation in Bologna in 1896, where he was director of the Osservatorio Astronomico e Meteorologico from 1900 to 1903 . From 1904 to 1935 he was Associate Professor of Physics at the University of Perugia .

Dessau was a supporter of the Zionist movement and founded in 1903 with Felice Ravenna (1870-1937) the first Zionist magazine in Italy Il Vessillo Israelitico . In 1903 he was the Italian delegate at the 6th Zionist Congress in Basel .

He was married to the painter Emma Dessau-Goitein (1877–1968), who came from the extensive family of rabbis and scholars Goitein . The couple's son was the mineralogist Gabor Dessau (1907–1983).

Publications (selection)

  • Over metal layers which are created by sputtering a cathode. Dissertation Strasbourg 1886 (in bookshops: Metzger & Wittig, Leipzig 1886).
  • together with Augusto Righi: La telegrafia senza filo. Zanichelli, Bologna 1903. ( archive.org )
    • German: Telegraphy without wire. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1903 ( archive.org ). 2nd edition 1907.
  • The physico-chemical properties of the alloys. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1910.
  • Manuale di Fisica ad uso delle scuole secondarie e superiori. 3 volumes, Milan 1912–1915. 2nd edition 1928–1931.
    • German (translated by the author from the Italian): Textbook of Physics. 2 volumes, Barth, Leipzig 1922–1924.

Translations

  • Augusto Righi: The optics of electrical oscillations. Experimental studies on electromagnetic analogues of the most important phenomena in optics. In addition to additions by the author, translated into German. by B. Dessau. Reisland, Leipzig 1898 [first: L 'ottica delle oscillazioni elettriche. Studio sperimentale sulla produione di fenomeni analoghi ai principali fenomeni ottici per mezzo delle onde elettromagnetiche. Bologna 1897]. ( archive.org )
  • Augusto Righi: The modern theory of physical phenomena (radioactivity, ions, electrons). Barth, Leipzig 1905 ( archive.org ). 2. the 1908 [first: La moderna teoria dei fenomeni fisici. Bologna 1904].

literature

  • Giorgio Tabarroni, Alessandro Alberigi Quaranta: Bernardo Dessau ed un suo inedito ("Il colorico") , in: Giornale di Fisica 13, 3, 1972, pp. 180-199
  • Katja Wannack: Hermann Dessau. The almost forgotten student of Mommsen and the large companies of the Berlin Academy of Sciences . Kovac, Hamburg 2007, ISBN 978-3-8300-2897-0 , p. 5. 177

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personal data
SURNAME Dessau, Bernardo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dessau, Bernhard (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian physicist and Zionist of German origin
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1863
PLACE OF BIRTH Offenbach am Main
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 1949
Place of death Perugia