Hermann Fricke (physicist)

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Hermann Heinrich Karl Fricke (born December 16, 1876 in Goslar ; † 1949 ) was a German physicist , mathematician and chemist , who was best known in the first half of the 20th century for his opposition to Einstein's theory of relativity .

As an employee of the Imperial Patent Office , he developed an independent ether vortex theory .

While Fricke's hydromechanical ether view is largely unknown today, it had a considerable influence on proponents of mechanical ether theories during the Nazi era . Fricke himself associated his work with scientific-political ambitions, which he sought to realize by founding the German Society for World Ether Research and Descriptive Physics (DGWAP). There are close substantive relationships between his work and the ether theory of the physicist Otto Wiener .

Fonts

  • A new and simple interpretation of gravity and a clear explanation of the physics of space. Wolfenbüttel 1914.
  • A new theory of the sun. Berlin-Westend 1933.
  • The earth-like sun inside (a new view of ether, gravity and sun) (Weimar, R. Borkmann, 1934)
  • World ether research - a development program after the overthrow of physics. Borkmann, Weimar 1939.
  • The Fricke-Wiener conception of ether. Deutsche Optische Wochenschrift, Vol. 65, No. 16, 1948.

literature

  • Milena Wazeck: Einstein's opponent. The public controversy over the theory of relativity in the 1920s dissertation. Free University of Berlin 2008. campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 2009, ISBN 978-3-593-38914-1 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Milena Wazeck: Einstein's opponent. The public controversy surrounding the theory of relativity in the 1920s. campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 2009, p. 307
  2. ↑ Hermann Fricke: World Ether Research - A build-up program after the overthrow of physics. Borkmann, 1939, p. 102
  3. ↑ Milena Wazeck: Einstein's opponent. The public controversy surrounding the theory of relativity in the 1920s. campus, Frankfurt am Main / New York 2009, p. 361
personal data
SURNAME Fricke, Hermann
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fricke, Hermann Heinrich Karl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist, mathematician and chemist
DATE OF BIRTH December 16, 1876
PLACE OF BIRTH Goslar
DATE OF DEATH 1949