Karl Mack (physicist)

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Karl Friedrich Mack (born August 29, 1857 in Ludwigsburg , † January 27, 1934 in Stuttgart ) was a German physicist and meteorologist .

From 1888 until his retirement in 1925, Mack was Professor of Physics and Meteorology at the Hohenheim Agricultural University . In 1893 he set up a seismometer station in the Hohenheim climate station on the recommendation of the Württemberg earthquake commission. In addition, Karl Erich Andrée , Gustav Angenheister , Immanuel Friedländer , Beno Gutenberg , Franz Kossmat , Gerhard Krumbach , Ludger Mintrop , Peter Polis , August Heinrich Sieberg and Emil Wiechert were among the founding members of the Germans founded on September 19, 1922 in Leipzig Seismological Society , today's German Geophysical Society.

The earthquake station in Hohenheim was set up from 1892 (another station was added later in Biberach), with Mack working with August Schmidt (1840–1929), professor at the Dillmann Realgymnasium in Stuttgart. They also constructed their own seismometers. Seismology experienced an upswing in Württemberg especially after the great earthquake of November 16, 1911 in Albstadt. Time synchronization was based on radio as early as 1912. Mack also dealt with return waves (surface waves that circumnavigate the earth several times).

In 1907 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . In 1929 he became an honorary member of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg .

literature

  • W. Hille: Karl Mack (obituary). in: Zeitschrift für Geophysik, Vol. 10 (1934), pp. 1–2
  • Erhard Wielandt, Rolf Schick: Hundred Years of Earthquake Research in Stuttgart , DGG Online, pdf (shorter version of: On the history of instrumental earthquake observation and earthquake research in Baden-Württemberg , Annual Books of the Society for Natural History Württemberg, Volume 149, 1994, pp. 75-98 )

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Member entry by Karl Friedrich Mack at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 11, 2016.
  2. ^ Honorary members of the Association for Patriotic Natural History in Württemberg


personal data
SURNAME Mack, Karl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mack, Karl Friedrich (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist and meteorologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigsburg
DATE OF DEATH January 27, 1934
Place of death Stuttgart