Karl Wolf (engineer)

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Karl Wolf , (born November 13, 1886 in Bielitz , † January 10, 1950 in Mönichkirchen ) was an Austrian physicist and engineer.

Life

Karl Wolf studied mathematics and physics at the Technical University of Vienna and the University of Vienna, graduating in 1909 with a doctorate from Friedrich Hasenöhrl (and Ernst Lecher ) at the University of Vienna in 1910 (studies on the propagation of electrical waves on a conductive hollow cylinder). Afterwards he was assistant at the chair for pure mechanics of the TH Vienna, from 1915 private lecturer and from 1924 full professor at the TH Vienna, where he was dean of the civil engineering faculty in 1938. In 1938 he was forced to retire for political reasons after the annexation of Austria . Reinstated after the war , he worked on the reconstruction of the TH Wien, of which he was rector in 1946/47.

In 1946 he became a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and in 1948 President of the Vienna Urania . He was also the editor of the Austrian Engineering Archive.

Initially he dealt with electrodynamic theory and later with technical mechanics and elasticity theory (application of the theory of conformal mapping, contributions to the fracture theory according to Alan Arnold Griffith ). During the First World War , he dealt with ballistics .

Fonts

  • Textbook of the technical mechanics of rigid systems, Vienna 1931

literature

  • Maximilian Pinl colleagues in a dark time , annual report DMV, 75, 1973 p. 206ff (with list of publications)

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personal data
SURNAME Wolf, Karl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian physicist and engineering scientist
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Bielsko-Biała
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 1950
Place of death Mönichkirchen