Max Seddig
Max Seddig (born February 19, 1877 in Crimmitschau ; † May 12, 1963 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German physicist and photography pioneer .
Life
Seddig was born in Crimmitschau as the son of the chief telegraph secretary Wilhelm Seddig. He attended the humanistic Thomas School in Leipzig . He then studied medicine , physics and mathematics at the University of Leipzig and with August Bier and Franz Richarz at the University of Greifswald . It was 1902 when Richarz with the dissertation representation of the course of the electric lines of force, and in particular its direction changes dielectrics at the University of Marburg to Dr. rer. nat. PhD. He completed his habilitation in 1908 with the thesis Measurement of the Temperature Dependence of Brownian Molecular Movement at the Academy for Social and Commercial Sciences in Frankfurt am Main. In 1909 he founded a laboratory for scientific photography in the Physikalischer Verein in Frankfurt. In 1915 he became a professor at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main . He developed an electron tube , the so-called Seddig tube (now in the Deutsches Museum ). From 1916 he worked for the War Ministry. In 1933 he was appointed full professor in Frankfurt. In 1935 he became director of the Institute for Applied Physics. In autumn 1944 Seddig, who was hostile to National Socialism , was denounced to the Gestapo by Hans-Joachim Schumacher , professor of chemistry . In 1949 he retired.
Web links
- Günter Haase: Max Seddig. In: Physicists and astronomers in Frankfurt. University of Frankfurt, archived from the original on February 12, 2013 .
- Early German tubes Seddig
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Seddig, Max |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist and photography pioneer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 19, 1877 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Crimmitschau |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 12, 1963 |
| Place of death | Frankfurt am Main |