Walter Gordon (physicist)
Walter Gordon (born August 3, 1893 in Apolda , † December 24, 1939 in Stockholm ) was a German physicist .
Life
Walter Gordon was born as the son of the businessman Arnold Gordon and his wife Bianca. Brann was born. The family was of Jewish origin and lived at Johannisgasse 5. In the early years of Walter Gordon's life, the family moved to Switzerland. In 1900 he attended school in St. Gallen , studied mathematics and physics at the University of Berlin in 1915 and received his doctorate in 1921 under Max Planck . In 1922 Gordon worked as an assistant to Max von Laue at the University of Berlin. After several months in Manchester with William Lawrence Bragg and at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Fiber Chemistry in Berlin-Dahlem in 1925, Gordon went to the University of Hamburg in 1926 and completed his habilitation there in 1929. In 1930 he was appointed professor and in 1932 he married Gertrud Lobbenberg from Hamburg. Under pressure from the political situation in Germany, Gordon moved to Stockholm in 1933. At the university there he worked in the field of mechanics and mathematical physics .
Walter Gordon and Oskar Klein set up the relativistic Klein-Gordon equation , the validity of which had to be restricted to particles with zero spin .
The city of Apolda honored its son by naming a square with his name.
literature
- Erwin Fues : Gordon, Walter. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 6, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1964, ISBN 3-428-00187-7 , p. 646 f. ( Digitized version ).
- JC Poggendorff (Ed.): JC Poggendorff's biographical-literary concise dictionary. Volume VI: 1923-1931. Verlag Chemie, Berlin 1936.
- Allen G. Bebus: World Whos Who in Science. Western Publishing Company , Hannibal, Missouri 1968.
- Dieter Ullmann : Walter Gordon - a quantum physicist from Apolda. In: Apoldaer Heimat. 7, 1989, p. 6.
- Dieter Ullmann: On the 100th birthday of Walter Gordon. In: Physical sheets. 49, 1993, p. 677.
- Dieter Ullmann: A picture by the quantum physicist Walter Gordon. In: Apoldaer Heimat. 14, 1996, p. 39
Web links
- Literature by and about Walter Gordon in the catalog of the German National Library
- Walter Gordon on the website of the University of Hamburg
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gordon, Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 3, 1893 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Apolda |
| DATE OF DEATH | December 24, 1939 |
| Place of death | Stockholm |