Josef Meixner
Josef Meixner (born April 24, 1908 in Percha (Starnberg) , † March 19, 1994 in Aachen ) was a German theoretical physicist.
Life
Meixner studied mathematics and physics at the University of Munich from 1926 to 1931 , where he passed the state examination for higher subjects in these subjects in April 1931 and received his doctorate in theoretical physics with Arnold Sommerfeld in June 1931 with a thesis on wave mechanics . He then worked as a research assistant at the University of Munich and from 1934 as a research assistant at the Institute for Theoretical Physics at the University of Gießen , where he completed his habilitation in 1936 and was given a lectureship in theoretical physics as a private lecturer . After various professorships , including at the Technical University of Berlin , he was appointed by the Reich Ministry for Science, Education and National Education (REM) in Berlin on December 1, 1942 as an adjunct professor for theoretical physics at RWTH Aachen University . In 1948 he was appointed full professor there, where he taught and researched until his retirement in 1974.
Meixner is best known today for the special functions of mathematical physics named after him (Meixner polynomials, Meixner-Pollaczek polynomials) and for his work on spheroid functions and math functions. Among other things, he dealt with the thermodynamics of irreversible processes, where he published important early works in 1943. In the 1950s, at the request of his teacher Sommerfeld and Fritz Bopp, he edited the new editions of Sommerfeld's famous lectures on theoretical physics.
Josef Meixner found his final resting place in Aachen's Westfriedhof .
Fonts
- with FW Schäfke: Mathieu functions and spheroid functions . Springer-Verlag, 1954
- with FW Schäfke and Gerhard Wolf: Mathieu Functions and Spheroidal Functions and their Mathematical Foundations: Further Studies . Springer Verlag, 1980
- with HG Reik: The thermodynamics of irreversible processes in continuous media with internal transformations . in Siegfried Flügge (editor): Handbook of Physics . Vol. III / 2, 1959
- On the thermodynamics of irreversible processes in: Zeitschrift für Physikalische Chemie, Vol. 53, 1943, pp. 235-263
- On the thermodynamics of irreversible processes in gases with chemically reacting and excitable components in: Annalen der Physik, Vol. 43, 1943, pp. 244-270
- Orthogonal polynomial systems with a special form of the generating function . Journal London Mathematical Society, Vol. 9, 1934, pp. 6-13
- The Green function of the wave mechanical Kepler problem , Mathematische Zeitschrift Vol. 36, 1933, pp. 677-707
swell
- F. Schlögl: Personal: Josef Meixner . In: Physics Journal. 50, 1994, pp. 584-584, doi : 10.1002 / phbl.19940500619 .
- Ulrich Kalkmann: The Technical University of Aachen in the Third Reich (1933–1945) . Verlag Mainz, Aachen 2003, ISBN 3-86130-181-4 , ( Aachener Studies on Technology and Society 4), (At the same time: Aachen, Techn. Hochsch., Diss., 2003), p. 324 ff. And others (s . Search index), The Technical University of Aachen in the Third Reich (1933-1945) - Ulrich Kalkmann - Google Books .
Individual evidence
- ^ The Green function of the wave mechanical Kepler problem . In: Mathematical Journal . 36, 1933, pp. 677-707. doi : 10.1007 / BF01188644 .
- ↑ On the thermodynamics of irreversible processes in gases with chemically reacting, dissociating and excitable components , Annalen der Physik Vol. 43, 1943, pp. 244–270. Compare with Ingo Müller History of Thermodynamics , Springer
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Meixner, Josef |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German theoretical physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1908 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Percha (Starnberg) |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 19, 1994 |
| Place of death | Aachen |