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Hans Alterthum (born September 30, 1890 in Berlin , † March 11, 1955 in Buenos Aires ) was a German-Argentine metal physicist and chemist .

His parents were the manufacturer Siegfried Alterthum (* 1850 in Schwerin, † 1903 in Berlin) and Therese, b. Loose. From 1920 to 1938 he worked in the research laboratory of the study society for electrical lighting ( Osram group). He lived at Kurfürstendamm 112. His first marriage was to Grete Mitwitz and the second was Grete Rothenstein.

They emigrated to England in 1939 and to Argentina in 1940, where their daughter Elsa Rosa was born on June 15, 1941 and he worked as a chemist until 1948.

Publications

  • About the Hall effect in metals at low temperatures, along with contributions to the theory of magnetism from the standpoint of the quantum hypothesis. 1912
  • Chemical electron theory and Hallefficks. 1913
  • The equation of state of solid bodies. 1913
  • The relative temperature scale of solids. 1913
  • On the theory of recrystallization . In: Zeitschrift für Metallkunde 14, 1922, pp. 417-424
  • Tungsten: Advances in manufacture and use in recent years. 1925
  • with Otto Feussner : Electric ovens. 1934
  • with Karl Krebs (1910–2006) and Robert Rompe : About the independent ionization of sodium and cesium vapor on glowing tungsten and rhenium surfaces. Publisher: Studienges. for electr. Illumination, 1934
  • with Arved Lompe and Rudolf Seeliger : The consumption of noble gases in electrical discharges. Publisher: Studienges. for electr. Illumination, 1936

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Journal for Metallkunde. Volume 46, 1955
  2. ^ Helmut Maier: Chemists in the "Third Reich": The German Chemical Society and the Association of German Chemists in the Nazi regime . John Wiley & Sons, February 17, 2015, ISBN 978-3-527-69134-0 , p. 368.
  3. ↑ Heinz and Thea Ruth Skyte, born Ephraim: Our Family , accessed on February 3, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Antiquity, Hans
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Argentine metal physicist
DATE OF BIRTH September 30, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1955
Place of death Buenos Aires