Ernst Stahel

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Ernst Stahel 1933 (4th from left standing)

Ernst Stahel and Ernest Stahel (born March 11, 1896 in Flawil ; † June 27, 1986 ) was a Swiss physicist .

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Stahel attended the canton school in St. Gallen and received his doctorate from the ETH Zurich in 1922 (on the first members of the Actinium series ) , where he was Auguste Piccard's assistant after the teaching degree in 1920 . With his doctoral supervisor he went to the Free University of Brussels , where he was assistant and lecturer (chargé de cours) from 1922 to 1929 and associate professor from 1929 to 1945. As a collaborator with Piccard, Stahel carried out the Michelson-Morley experiment in a balloon (1926) and on the Rigi . He participated in several Solvay conferences (1933, 1948). In 1937 he became a knight of the Belgian Leopold Order .

In 1942 he returned to Switzerland to work as a high school teacher in Biel / Bienne . At the ETH Zurich, he occasionally stepped in to give lectures. In 1966 he retired.

literature

  • JC Poggendorff's biographical-literary concise dictionary for mathematics, astronomy, physics with geophysics, chemistry, crystallography and related fields of knowledge. Volume VI, Part 4, Verlag Chemie, Berlin 1940, p. 2520 (with a list of his publications)
  • JC Poggendorff Biographical-literary concise dictionary of the exact natural sciences. Volume VIIb, part 8, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1989, pp. 5087-5088 (with a list of his publications); Volume VIII, Part 3, Wiley-VCH Verlag, Weinheim 2004, ISBN 3-527-40141-5 , p. 2234

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Obituary in the museum archive, Flawil local museum
  2. ↑ Dissertation , including digital copy with curriculum vitae
  3. ↑ P. Marage: Eléments d'histoire du développement de la physique nucléaire et des particules élémentaires en Belgique. (PDF, p. 4). He published about it The Michelson Experiment, carried out in a free balloon. In: The natural sciences. Volume 14, 1926, pp. 935-936; with Piccard: New results of the Michelson experiment. In: The natural sciences. Volume 15, 1927, p. 140.
  4. ↑ Auguste Piccard, Ernst Stahel: The Michelson experiment, carried out on the Rigi 1800 m above sea level. M. In: The natural sciences. Volume 16, 1928, p. 25.
  5. ^ Physicists at the Seventh Solvay Physics Conference, Brussels, Belgium, October 1933
  6. ↑ Annual report. Municipal accounts and statistical chronicle of the city of Biel 1942 , p. 90 (PDF, 54 MB)
  7. ^ Charles Enz, Beat Glaus, Gerhard Oberkofler (editor): Wolfgang Pauli and his work at the ETH Zurich . Hochschulverlag der ETH, 1997, p. 76 ( limited preview in Google book search).
  8. ↑ Biel municipality: Annual report, municipal accounts 1966 (PDF, 27.1 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Stahel, Ernst
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stahel, Ernest
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1896
PLACE OF BIRTH Flawil
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1986