Kurd from Mosengeil

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Kurd Friedrich Rudolf von Mosengeil , also Curd Friedrich Rudolf von Mosengeil (born March 7, 1884 in Bonn , † September 5, 1906 at Wildgall in the Rieserferner group ) was a German physicist .

Life

Kurd von Mosengeil was the only son and youngest child of Karl von Mosengeil and a student of Max Planck . In 1905 the latter was the first to support Albert Einstein's theory of relativity in a colloquium at the Humboldt University in Berlin . In the years that followed, Planck published several papers in which he presented further conclusions from Einstein's theory. He was able to interest his assistant Max von Laue and his student Kurd von Mosengeil in being the first to do a habilitation or a doctorate on the special theory of relativity .

Due to the accidental death of Mosengeil during a mountain tour in South Tyrol in September 1906, he was no longer able to continue his research. As can be seen from a letter from Max Planck to Wilhelm Wien on January 26, 1907 , he had Mosengeil's dissertation shortened by Max von Laue and prepared for printing in the Annals of Physics . He personally vouched for its content and believed in the lasting value of Mosengeil's investigations. Max Planck was proved right, because Mosengeil's dissertation, published in 1907, was groundbreaking for further research in the field of relativistic thermodynamics, where Mosengeil combined the work of Friedrich Hasenöhrl with that of Hendrik Antoon Lorentz and Albert Einstein on the special theory of relativity .

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literature

  • Genealogical pocket book of the letter aristocratic houses , Perthes, 1913, p. 566

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personal data
SURNAME Mosengeil, Kurd from
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mosengeil, Kurd Friedrich Rudolf von (full name); Mosengeil, Curd Friedrich Rudolf von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 7, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Bonn
DATE OF DEATH September 5, 1906
Place of death on the Wildgall , Rieserferner Group