Fritz Henning
Fritz Gustav Hermann Henning (born September 11, 1877 in Karlsburg , today part of Strasburg (Uckermark) , Prenzlau district ; † December 4, 1958 in Bremen ) was a German physicist.
Life
Henning studied natural sciences in Halle and Berlin from 1898 and received his doctorate in physics in Halle in 1901 (on radioactive substances). In the same year he went to the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt in Berlin. There he became a senior government councilor and associate professor at the University of Berlin in 1921 and was director of the heat and pressure department from 1927 to 1945.
He dealt with the measurement of high and low temperatures and with water vapor research. His research on temperature measurement was an important basis for the introduction of the International Temperature Scale in 1927 and his water vapor research found its way into international vapor pressure tables.
He was editor of the textbook of practical physics by Friedrich Kohlrausch , co-editor of the physical-chemical tables of Landolt-Börnstein, co-editor of the physical handbook of Arnold Berliner and Karl Scheel and co-editor of the handbook of physics by Geiger / Scheel.
Fonts
- Basics, methods and results of temperature measurement, Vieweg 1915
- with Ludwig Holborn, Karl Scheel: Heat tables: Results from the thermal investigations of the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt, Vieweg 1919
- Thermal standard values, VDI Verlag 1938
- Temperature measurement, Leipzig: Barth 1951, 3rd edition Springer Verlag 1977 (editor Helmut Moser)
- On low and high temperatures, Teubner 1951
Web links
- Carl Tingwaldt, NDB
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Henning, Fritz |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Henning, Fritz Gustav Hermann (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 11, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Karlsburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th December 1958 |
| Place of death | Bremen |