Rudolf Heinrich Weber

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Rudolf Heinrich Georg Weber (born August 16, 1874 in Zurich , † August 3, 1920 in Rostock ) was a German mathematician , physicist and university professor .

Live and act

Rudolf Heinrich Weber was born in Zurich in 1874 as the son of the mathematician Heinrich Martin Weber . Later he worked occasionally with his father, for example on the publication of Gauss ' Principia generalia theoriae figurae fluidorum in statu aequilibrii.

After finishing school, he began his studies in Strasbourg around 1895 , where he became a member of the Makaria black fraternity . After the summer semester of 1896 he moved to the Georg-August University in Göttingen , where he continued his studies until 1899. In Göttingen he was a guest of the association and later the Holzminda fraternity , later its honorary member. In 1902 he went to Heidelberg University as a private lecturer in physics , where he accepted an extraordinary professorship in physics in 1907. But in the same year he switched university.

The development of the extraordinary professorship for physics at the University of Rostock and its conversion into a full professorship for theoretical physics are closely linked to Rudolf Heinrich Weber. From 1907 he was the first representative of an extraordinary professorship for mathematical physics / applied mathematics / theoretical physics at the University of Rostock. There he also became director of the Physics Institute. Shortly before his death in 1920, he received a full professorship in Rostock in 1919.

During the First World War he took part as a lieutenant and radio operator in the telegraph force. He was a teacher at the radio school for officer training in Ruhleben (telegraph school) and at the Army Radio Department 16.

Publications (selection)

  • About the application of damping by induction currents to determine the conductivities of alloys. Dissertation (Strasbourg), Leipzig 1899.
  • Electromagnetic oscillations in metal tubes. Habilitation (Heidelberg), Leipzig 1902.
  • General principles of a theory of the shape of liquids in a state of equilibrium. by Carl Friedrich Gauß . Leipzig 1903. (as translator)
  • Applied elementary mathematics as Volume 3 of: Encyclopedia of Elementary Mathematics . Leipzig 1907 (published together with his father, among others)
  • Mathematical physics. (Volume 3, Part 1 of the Encyclopedia of Elementary Mathematics. ) 2nd edition, Leipzig 1910.
  • Repertory of Physics. Leipzig 1915. (co-editor)

Awards

literature

  • Obituary in: Physikalische Zeitschrift. 1922, p. 82.
  • Mahnke, Reinhard: On the development of experimental and theoretical physics at the University of Rostock from 1874 to 1945. In: BGUR 17 (1991), pp. 34–49.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Heidelberg University Library: Heinrich Weber ( Memento from February 7, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  2. ^ Wilhelm Ebel : The register of the Georg-August-Universität zu Göttingen 1837-1900. Hildesheim 1974. (No. 69513, matriculated on April 26, 1897)
  3. ^ Directory of the members of the Holzminda connection to Göttingen. As of December 1, 1902.
  4. ↑ a b uni-rostock.de: Physics from 1874
  5. ↑ uni-rostock.de: Mathematics from 1830
  6. ↑ Lundius (Ed.): Alte-Herren-Zeitung of the fraternity Holzminda Göttingen. Altona-Ottensen 1917 p. 15 and 83.
  7. ↑ Lundius (Ed.): Alte-Herren-Zeitung of the fraternity Holzminda Göttingen. Altona-Ottensen 1919, p. 27.
personal data
SURNAME Weber, Rudolf Heinrich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Weber, Rudolf Heinrich Georg (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician, physicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH August 16, 1874
PLACE OF BIRTH Zurich
DATE OF DEATH August 3, 1920
Place of death Rostock