Walther Rump

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Walther Otto Rump (born March 23, 1878 in Dortmund , † July 18, 1965 in Erlangen ) was a German medical physicist and university professor.

Life and work

Walther Rump, the son of a pharmacist, began studying physics in Göttingen in 1897 , where he joined the Hannovera fraternity , a student union of the German fraternity . He continued his studies in Berlin, Würzburg and Erlangen. After a doctorate to Dr. phil. and participation in the First World War, he worked as an assistant to the Erlangen professor of physics Eilhard Wiedemann .

From 1922 there was intensive collaboration between Wiedemann, assisted by Rump, and other employees of the Erlangen women's clinic and the Erlangen-based company Reiniger, Gebbert & Schall (later taken over by Siemens AG), which manufactured X-ray machines. The X-ray department of the university women's clinic soon had 18 X-ray devices for diagnosis and therapy. Rump worked in research, looking after the devices and training staff. In 1927 he completed his habilitation and became a private lecturer in the medical faculty. In 1934 he was appointed associate professor for medical physics. He worked several times in standard textbooks for gynecology in the field of radiology from a physical-technical point of view. In this area he wrote a large number of individual writings, always trying to point out the proper use of X-rays to avoid damage to the human body.

Walther Rump was a corresponding member of the German Radiological Society and the Austrian Society for Radiology and Radiation Research .

Publications (selection)

  • Energy measurements on X-rays. Habilitation thesis, Erlangen 1927
  • Johann Veit (ed.): Handbook of Gynecology. Volume 4, Part 1: Physical Therapy in Gynecology. edited by August Laqeuy, Walther Rump and Hermann Wintz , ...
  • Hermann Wintz, Walther Rump: Mesures de protection contre les dangers résultant de l'emploi des rayons du radium, Roentgen et ultra-violets , Genève: Série de publications de la Société des Nations, 3. 1931, p. 9
  • Electromedicine and Radiation Science. Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich 1954

literature

  • J. C. Poggendorff's biographical-literary concise dictionary for mathematics, astronomy, physics with geophysics, chemistry, crystallography and related fields of knowledge, Volume VI: 1923–1931, III. Part: L – R, Verlag Chemie GMBH, Berlin 1938, p. 2243
  • Who is who ?, 12th edition, Munich 1955, p. 999
  • J. C. Poggendorff: Biographical-Literary Concise Dictionary of Exact Sciences, Volume VIIa, Part 3: L – R, Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1959, p. 851
  • Article Student Life 1897 by Walther Rump about his studies in: Federal newspaper of the Green Hanoverians in Göttingen, Volume 49 (New Series), April 1959, No. 1, pp. 13-18, as well as with comments by Thomas Sempf in the Federal Newspaper of the Hannovera Göttingen fraternity, Volume 110 (New Series), May 2020, No. 1, pp. 19–29.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henning Tegtmeyer : Directory of members of the fraternity Hannovera Göttingen, 1848–1998 , Düsseldorf 1998, page 58
  2. ↑ Energy measurements on X-rays . Habilitation thesis, Erlangen 1927
  3. ↑ Student life 1897 (link to the article)
personal data
SURNAME Rump, Walther
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rump, Walther Otto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German medical physicist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH March 23, 1878
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1965
Place of death gain