Karl Glitscher

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Karl Glitscher (born July 2, 1886 in Mühlheim , † 1945 ) was a German physicist and co-founder of quantum mechanics .

education

Glitscher studied with Arnold Sommerfeld at the Ludwig Maximilians University in Munich . For his dissertation (1917) he used the fine structure of the spectral lines to compare Max Abraham's theory, according to which electrons are perfect rigid spheres with charges evenly distributed over the surface, with the special theory of relativity .

Career

Glitscher applied for a patent for an "artificial horizon indicator" for vehicles and similar platforms in Germany in 1930 and in the USA in 1931, which he ceded to the Gesellschaft für electrical Apparate mbH (Gelap) in Berlin-Marienfelde. Gelap was founded in 1920 as a subsidiary of Siemens & Halske (S & H) with the aim of optimizing the technical equipment of the military. Gelap merged in 1933 with the S&H aircraft engine factory to form Siemens Apparate und Maschinen GmbH , which produced communication and command systems for military organizations and commercial shipping companies.

death

Glitscher died in 1945 while defending Berlin against the Red Army , where he was used as a sniper.

Selected literature

  • Karl Glitscher: Spectroscopic comparison between the theories of the rigid and the deformable electron. In: Annals of Physics. Vol. 357, No. 6, ISSN  0003-3804 , 1917, pp. 608-630, doi : 10.1002 / andp.19173570603 .

Patents

  • K. Glitscher US Patent 1,932,210, Berlin-Dauern, Germany, assigned to Gesellschaft für electrical Apparate mbH, Marienfelde-Berlin, Germany. The US patent application was approved on September 19, 1931 under patent number 563,799, and in Germany on August 12, 1930. (Google Patents, scholar.google.com)

swell

  1. ↑ Max Abraham: Dynamics of the electron. In: News from the Society of Science in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. 1902, ZDB ID 502555-2 , pp. 20-41.
  2. ↑ Max Abraham: Principles of the Dynamics of the Electron. In: Annals of Physics. Vol. 315, No. 1, 1902, pp. 105-179, doi : 10.1002 / andp.19023150105 .
  3. ↑ K. Glitscher US Patent 1,932,210, Berlin-Dauern, Germany, assigned to the Gesellschaft für electrical Apparate mbH, Marienfelde-Berlin, Germany. The US patent application was approved on September 19, 1931 under patent number 563,799, and in Germany on August 12, 1930. (Google Patents, via scholar.google.com.)
  4. ↑ Carl Friedrich von Siemens biography at siemens.com/history
  5. ↑ Siemens apparatus and machines (SAM) at siemens.com/history
personal data
SURNAME Glitscher, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and co-founder of quantum mechanics
DATE OF BIRTH July 2, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Muhlheim
DATE OF DEATH 1945