Walter König (physicist)

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Carl Georg Walter König (born November 20, 1859 in Berlin , † August 2, 1936 in Gießen ) was a German physicist .

Life

König studied physics at the universities of Tübingen and Berlin from 1878 to 1882 and received his doctorate in Berlin in 1882 with the thesis on the elliptical polarization of reflected diffracted light. In 1887 he received his habilitation at the University of Leipzig , the habilitation thesis had the title About the determination of friction coefficients of dripping liquids by means of rotating vibrations . He then worked as a private lecturer at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Leipzig, and from 1892 as an associate professor of physics. In addition, from 1892 to 1900 he was director of the Physics Institute of the Physikalischer Verein in Frankfurt am Main. There he set up an X-ray photographic laboratory in 1896 . From 1900 to 1905 he was first associate and then full professor of physics at the University of Greifswald . From 1905 he followed Paul Drude as full professor of experimental physics at the University of Giessen and held this position until 1930, when he was followed by Walter Bothe . In 1911/12 he was rector of the University of Giessen.

König wrote numerous didactic publications and textbooks and worked in different areas of the optical, electrical and magnetic properties of solids , hydrodynamics , electrical waves and meteorology . König remained a classical physicist , only Bothe included quantum mechanics in his lectures in Giessen. König was particularly interested in historical and biographical topics. a. Commemorative speeches for Hermann von Helmholtz , Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen and Ferdinand von Zeppelin .

literature

  • Expert Committee on the History of Meteorology German Meteorological Society: Circular No. 39 December 12, 2010, p. 10. (pdf 72 kB)
  • Carl Georg Walter König. In: Professor catalog of the University of Leipzig / Catalogus Professorum Lipsiensium. Published by the Chair of Modern and Contemporary History, Historical Seminar of the University of Leipzig. (pdf 6.6 kB)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Theodor Petersen : Annual report of the Physikalischer Verein zu Frankfurt am Main for the financial year 1898–1899 . Ed .: Physikalischer Verein . C. Naumann's printing works, Frankfurt am Main 1900, p. 12 ( online in the internet archive archive.org ).
  2. ↑ Note to "University Collections in Germany"
personal data
SURNAME King, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES König, Carl Georg Walter (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1859
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH August 2, 1936
Place of death to water