Max Jakob (physicist)
Max Jakob (born July 20, 1879 in Ludwigshafen , † January 4, 1955 in Chicago ) was a German thermodynamicist .
Life
The son of a Jewish teacher studied at the Technical University of Munich between 1897 and 1903 , where he received his doctorate in 1905. Between 1903 and 1906 he was employed as an assistant at the laboratory for technical physics with Professor Knoblauch .
After his time in Munich, he worked for 3 years at AEG in Berlin , after which he worked for a short time in Frankfurt and Baden .
In 1910 he joined the Physikalisch-Technische Reichsanstalt and became an assistant in the department for heat and pressure, which was headed by Ludwig Holborn . From 1914 he was a professor at the Reichsanstalt, head of the laboratory for heat engineering and the laboratory for viscosity.
In 1934 he was released because of his Jewish descent, after which he emigrated to the United States .
In 1936 he started a series of lectures on heat transfer there.
In 1937 he became a professor at the Illinois Institute of Technology and at the same time a consultant at the Armor Research Foundation in Chicago .
Max Jacob died on January 4, 1955 of heart failure.
The ASME founded in 1961 the Max Jakob Memorial Award , which is awarded annually for outstanding achievements in the field of heat transfer.
The Jacob number is also named after him.
literature
- Walter Fritz: Jakob, Max. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 10, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1974, ISBN 3-428-00191-5 , p. 321 f. ( Digitized version ).
- Walter Fritz: Memory of Max Jakob In: Heat and Mass Transfer Volume 8, No. 1, 1975, pp. 45–48, doi : 10.1007 / BF02568597 .
Web links
- TU Munich: recipient of the Max Jakob Memorial Award
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jakob, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German thermodynamicist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1879 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ludwigshafen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 4th January 1955 |
| Place of death | Chicago |