Eduard Riecke
Karl Victor Eduard Riecke (born December 1, 1845 in Stuttgart , † June 11, 1915 in Göttingen ) was a German experimental physicist .
Origin and family
His parents were Victor Adolf von Riecke and his wife Julie Jäger (born June 11, 1816, † May 20, 1877). His father was a general practitioner in Stuttgart, from 1850 court doctor and 1853 chief medical officer as well as member of the statistical-topographical bureau. He is the scion of the Riecke family in Württemberg .
Riecke was married to (Henny) Boedeker , a daughter of the professor for pharmaceutical chemistry in Göttingen Karl Boedeker . The couple had a son and a daughter.
Life
Riecke studied physics at the Polytechnic in Stuttgart, at the University of Tübingen and at the University of Göttingen under Wilhelm Weber and Friedrich Kohlrausch , where he received his doctorate in 1871 and shortly thereafter completed his habilitation . In 1873 he became an associate professor and in 1881 a full professor, which he remained until his death.
He carried out experiments on the conduction of electricity in metals, for which he developed a model of conduction through electrons, which was further developed by Paul Drude . Among other things, the model could explain the decrease in conductivity with an increase in temperature. Later he dealt among other things with electricity conduction in gases.
In 1861 he was elected a member of the Leopoldina . The Bavarian Academy of Sciences appointed him a corresponding member in 1909. He had been an assessor since 1872 and a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences since 1879 . Johannes Stark is one of his students .
Fonts
- Textbook of Experimental Physics, 2 volumes, Leipzig 1896
- Physics textbook, 2 volumes, Leipzig 1902, 1905, 1908, 1912
- Physics textbook, 2 volumes, ed. by E. Lecher, Berlin 1918/1919 and 1923/1928
literature
- Claus Priesner : Riecke, Eduard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-428-11202-4 , p. 562 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Riecke, Eduard . In: Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia (DBE) . 2., revised. and extended edition. tape 8 : Poethen – Schlueter . De Gruyter / KG Saur, Berlin / Boston / Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-11-094025-1 , p. 389 .
Web links
- Eduard Riecke on leo-bw.de
- Works by and about Eduard Riecke in the German Digital Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Eberhard Emil von Georgii-Georgenau : Biographisch-genealogische Blätter aus und über Schwaben , Stuttgart 1879, p. 748
- ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 201.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Riecke, Eduard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German experimental physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 1, 1845 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stuttgart |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 11, 1915 |
| Place of death | Goettingen |