Engelbert Schücking

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Engelbert L. Schücking , often quoted in English as Schucking , (* May 23, 1926 in Dortmund ; † January 5, 2015 in Greenwich Village , New York City ) was a German theoretical physicist and astrophysicist who studied cosmology and general relativity (ART ) busy.

Life

Engelbert Schücking came from an old, bourgeois patrician family based in the Münsterland, originally from Coesfeld, who produced many outstanding personalities over the centuries. Schücking was the youngest child of Lothar Engelbert Schücking . Already in his youth he dealt with astronomy (observation of sunspots).

Schücking studied mathematics and physics at the University of Göttingen (among others with Franz Rellich ) and the University of Hamburg (diploma in mathematics 1955) and then received his doctorate in 1956 on gravitation theory with Pascual Jordan after finishing school at the Laurentianum Warendorf grammar school (1936–1943) . His first publication on relativistic cosmology was in 1954 in the Zeitschrift für Physik. In his memories of Jordan he described that he was initially reluctant to work in Jordan's area of ​​interest at the time (projective relativity theory with variable gravitational constant), which seemed to him to be remote. Schücking found so but fast access to international research in ART, first in Hamburg, where Jürgen Ehlers and Wolfgang Kundt researched in Jordan in a seminar on ART, then in the early 1960s at the former center of research in the USA with Peter Bergmann at from Syracuse University . In Hamburg he also worked with the cosmologist Otto Heckmann , with whom he found cosmological “Newtonian” solutions in 1955 that, like the Gödel solution of ART, showed an absolute rotation of space (which contradicted the Mach principle ). With István Ozsváth he also gave a modification of Gödel's solution of a rotating universe in 1962 as a solution of the GTR, which, in contrast to this, was spatially finite and without closed time-like world lines. In 1963 he edited the anthology of the First Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics with Ivor Robinson and Alfred Schild . He was later a professor at New York University .

Heffa Schücking (* 1959), the co-founder and managing director of the environmental organization urgewald , who was awarded a Goldman Environmental Prize in 1994, is his daughter.

literature

  • Alex Harvey (Editor) On Einstein's Path - Essays in Honor of Engelbert Schucking , Springer 1999

Fonts

  • with Otto Heckmann: Other cosmological theories, in S. Flügge (editor), Encyclopedia of Physics, Vol. 53, 1959
  • with Otto Heckmann: Relativistic Cosmology, in L. Witten Gravitation - an introduction to current research , Wiley 1962
  • Cosmology, in Jürgen Ehlers (editor) Relativity theory and cosmology , American Math. Society 1967
  • The Bianchi classification of 3 dimensional spatial symmetry groups by the method of Schücking , Seminar von Schücking, Vorlesungsnotizen von Wolfgang Kundt (1957), first published in George FR Ellis , Malcolm AH MacCallum, Andrzej Krasinski (eds.) Golden Oldies in General Relativity. Hidden Gems , Springer Verlag 2013 (with autobiographical note by Schücking)
  • Engelbert L. Schücking, Eugene J. Surowitz: Homogeneous Einstein Fields . 2015, ISBN 978-981-4630-07-8 ( draft from 2012 on his homepage (archive from August 1, 2012) ( memento from August 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) [PDF]).

Web links

References

  1. ↑ Jordan, Pauli, Politics, Brecht .. and a variable gravitational constant , Physics Today October 1999, reprinted in expanded form in Harvey On Einstein's Path 1999. Schücking also published memories of Pauli in Karl von Meyenn , Schücking, Wolfgang Pauli , Physics Today, February 2001
  2. ↑ Ozsvath, Schücking, Nature, Vol. 193, 1962, p. 1168, same: An Anti-Mach metric , in Recent Developments in General Relativity, Pergamon Press / Polish Scientific Publ., Warsaw, 1962, p. 339
personal data
SURNAME Schücking, Engelbert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schücking, Engelbert L.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German theoretical physicist and astrophysicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH 5th January 2015
Place of death New York City