Reinhold Rüdenberg

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Günther Reinhold Rüdenberg , in the USA Rudenberg , (born February 4, 1883 in Hanover , † December 25, 1961 in Boston ) was a German electrical engineer and university professor .

Life

Günther Reinhold Rüdenberg came from a Jewish family . He was a cousin of the merchant Gustav Rüdenberg and the bed spring manufacturer and art collector Max Rüdenberg , both of whom were victims of the Holocaust .

Reinhold Rüdenberg received his doctorate in 1903 under Wilhelm Friedrich Kohlrausch at the Technical University of Hanover . From 1908 he worked at Siemens-Schuckert-Werke GmbH in Berlin as an engineer. In 1913 he completed his habilitation at the Technical University (Berlin-) Charlottenburg with a thesis on the dimensioning of three-phase collectors . He then became an honorary professor for heavy current and high voltage technology. He then taught in Göttingen and Berlin. In 1919 Rüdenberg married Lily Minkowski, a daughter of the mathematician Hermann Minkowski . In 1923 he became head and chief electrician of the newly founded scientific department at Siemens.

Rüdenberg received more than 300 patents . Special achievements were a speed-adjustable three-phase shunt commutator motor with brush adjustment and an electron microscope , which he built around the same time as Ernst Ruska and Max Knoll , who also developed an electron microscope. Since Reinhold Rüdenberg was Jewish, he had to leave the Technical University and the Siemens group in 1935. He emigrated to Great Britain, where he worked as a consulting engineer for General Electric Co. Ltd. until 1938 . and also lectured at the University of London. He then emigrated to the USA, where he taught at Harvard University and MIT .

In 1941 Rüdenberg was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

His sons were the physicist Gunther Rudenberg (* 1920) and the physiologist Hermann Rudenberg (* 1927).

Honors

Fonts

  • Eddy current energy. Dissertation, Technical University of Hanover, 1903.
  • Electrical switching processes and related malfunctions in power systems. 2nd corrected edition, 1923.
  • Transmission and reception of electrical waves. Springer, Berlin 1926.
  • Electric traveling waves on lines and in the windings of high-voltage systems. 4th increased edition, Springer, Berlin / Göttingen / Heidelberg 1962.
  • Electrical switching operations. 5th revised edition, Springer, Berlin 1988, ISBN 3540057668 .

literature

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Peter Schulze : Rüdenberg, (2) Max. In: Stadtlexikon Hannover , p. 528
  2. ^ Members of the American Academy. Listed by election year, 1900-1949 ( PDF ). Retrieved September 27, 2015
personal data
SURNAME Rüdenberg, Reinhold
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rudenberg, Reinhold; Rüdenberg, Günther Reinhold (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German electrical engineer and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover
DATE OF DEATH December 25, 1961
Place of death Boston