Theodor Des Coudres

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Theodor Des Coudres (born March 13, 1862 in Veckerhagen , Weser, † October 8, 1926 in Leipzig ) was a German physicist .

Life

Theodor Des Coudres was the son of the Oberbergrates Julius Des Coudres and his wife Anna Henrietta Rosenstock. His younger brother, Richard Des Coudres , became an officer; his paternal uncle was the painter Ludwig Des Coudres .

After attending the Friedrichgymnasium in Kassel , Des Coudres began to study science and medicine at the University of Geneva in 1881 and later moved to Leipzig and Munich . At the Humboldt University in Berlin , he successfully completed his studies in 1887 with a dissertation on the optical constants in mercury with Hermann von Helmholtz .

In 1889 Theodor Des Coudres got a job at the University of Leipzig as an assistant to Gustav Heinrich Wiedemann . His research culminated in his habilitation in 1891 . In 1895 he was appointed to the University of Göttingen , where four years later he was appointed to the "Chair of Applied Electricity". In 1901 Des Coudres moved to the University of Würzburg , where he took over the newly established "Chair for Theoretical Physics" as an associate professor.

In 1903 Des Coudres was brought to the University of Leipzig as the successor to Ludwig Boltzmann , where he worked until the end of his life. Theodor Des Coudres died at the age of 64 on October 8, 1926 in Leipzig. The publisher Georg Hirzel and the physicist Otto Wiener wrote noteworthy obituaries for Theodor Des Coudres.

Des Coudres worked, among other things, on metal reflection, the Kerr effect , high-pressure physics and was the first to determine the specific charge and the speed of alpha particles .

Since 1903 he was a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences .

Worth mentioning

Theodor Des Coudres suffered from enormous writer's block and was only able to counteract this during long journeys by train .

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SURNAME Coudres, Theodor Des
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 13, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Veckerhagen , Weser
DATE OF DEATH October 8, 1926
Place of death Leipzig