Hugo Tetrode

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Hugo Martin Tetrode (born March 7, 1895 in Nieuwer Amstel, today: Amstelveen , † January 18, 1931 ) was a Dutch physicist .

life and work

Tetrode came from a very wealthy family, his father Pieter Johan Conrad Tetrode was director of De Nederlandsche Bank from 1919 to 1934 . From 1911 he studied mathematics, physics and chemistry for a short time in Leipzig , but returned to the Netherlands in 1912 . There he lived withdrawn, corresponded with well-known physicists of his time ( Albert Einstein , Hendrik Antoon Lorentz , Paul Ehrenfest ) and published several important physical treatises. At the same time as Otto Sackur, he developed the Sackur-Tetrode equation to describe the entropy of ideal monatomic gases, which he published in the Annalen der Physik in 1912 ( The chemical constant of the gases and the elementary quantum of action , Annalen der Physik, Volume 38, 1912, p 434-442, Corrigendum Volume 39, p. 255). Another work dealt with electrodynamics as a classical theory of action at a distance, only with a direct interaction between particles without the mediation of a field and thus influenced the action at a distance absorber theory of John Archibald Wheeler and Richard Feynman in the 1940s (as well as Karl Schwarzschild and Adriaan Fokker ). He was unmarried and died of tuberculosis .

Fonts

  • The chemical constant of the gases and the elementary quantum of action , Annalen der Physik, Volume 38, 1912, pp. 434-442, Correction Volume 39, 1912, pp. 255-256
  • Remarks on the energy content of monatomic gases and on the quantum theory for liquids , Physikalische Zeitschrift, Volume 14, 1913, pp. 212–215
  • Theoretical determination of the entropy constant of gases and liquids , Proc. Sect. Sci. Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie Wet. Ser. B, Volume 17, 1914/1915, pp. 1167-1184
  • About the interdependence of the world. An extension of the classical dynamics , Zeitschrift für Physik, Volume 10, 1922, pp. 317–328
  • The momentum-energy law in Dirac's quantum theory of the electron , Zeitschrift für Physik, Volume 49, 1928, pp. 858-864
  • General-relativistic quantum theory of the electron , Zeitschrift für Physik, Volume 50, 1928, pp. 336–346

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personal data
SURNAME Tetrode, Hugo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tetrode, Hugo Martin
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1895
PLACE OF BIRTH Nieuwer Amstel, today Amstelveen
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1931