Rudolf Samuel
Rudolf Samuel (born 1897 in Berlin ; died 1949 in Haifa ) was a German-Israeli physicist.
Life
Rudolf Samuel studied physics in Berlin, Göttingen and Breslau and received his doctorate in 1924 in Göttingen under James Franck . He was a member of the Cartel of Jewish Connections (KJV) and co-founder of Hapoel Hazair and worked as a Zionist . He wrote for the newspaper Die Arbeit , Berlin and the Jüdische Zeitung for East Germany in Breslau.
In 1931, Samuel became professor of physics at Aligarh Muslim University in British India , where he set up teaching. However, he only saw the position as a transit point because he actually wanted to go to Palestine to the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He had already dropped his son John and his wife Erna there. Samuel applied several times to no avail for a position as an experimental physicist at the University of Jerusalem. Despite the support from Chaim Weizmann and the advocacy of Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr , Leonard Ornstein resisted it. At the end of the multi-year search process, the theorist Giulio Racah was appointed to the chair. At the same time, Samuel's position in Aligarh was no longer renewed because the Muslims no longer wanted to employ people of other faiths. Samuel stayed in England during World War II and only found a visiting professor position at the Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago in 1943 .
After the establishment of the State of Israel, Samuel became a lecturer in physics at Technion , the technical college in Haifa .
Fonts (selection)
- About ionization of potassium vapor by light , in: Zeitschrift für Physik , Volume 29, pp. 209–213 (1924)
- with Hans Lessheim: The valence number and its relationship to the structure of atoms . Berlin: Brothers Borntraeger, 1927
literature
- Samuel, Rudolf , in: Joseph Walk (ed.): Short biographies on the history of the Jews 1918–1945 . Munich: Saur, 1988, ISBN 3-598-10477-4 , p. 326 (year of birth there 1889)
- Rudolf Samuel , in: Armin A. Wallas (Ed.): Eugen Hoeflich . Diaries 1915 to 1927 . Vienna: Böhlau, 1999 ISBN 3-205-99137-0 , p. 543
- Issachar Unna: The Genesis of Physics at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem . In: Physics in Perspective , 2 (2000) pp. 336-380
- Bulletin of Irgun Olej Merkas Europa , Tel Aviv, February 11, 1949, p. 8
Web links
- Literature by and about Rudolf Samuel in the catalog of the German National Library
- Rudolf Samuel , at Aligarh Muslim University
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Samuel, Rudolf |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Israeli physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1949 |
| Place of death | Haifa |