Wilhelm Grosse

Justus Wilhelm Grosse (born August 24, 1857 in Verden (Aller) , † July 31, 1935 in Bremen ) was a German teacher, meteorologist and physicist .

Life

Wilhelm Grosse was the son of a government secretary, studied mathematics and physics at the Georg-August University of Göttingen and the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen from 1877 to 1881 and then became a grammar school teacher for mathematics and physics in Clausthal , Vegesack and Bremen. In 1886 he was in Kiel with a thesis on Prisms doctorate . In 1903 he received the title of professor. From 1909 he headed the state weather station in Bremen.

Wilhelm Grosse is the inventor of the polarization photometer.

On March 26, 1890, Wilhelm Grosse was accepted as a member ( matriculation no. 2879 ) of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina .

Fonts

• About polarizing prisms . Inaugural dissertation to obtain a doctorate in philosophy at the University of Kiel, 1886
• The common polarization prisms with special consideration of their application in photometers . 1887
• Entertaining problems and games in mathematical lighting . Quandt & Handel, Leipzig 1897
• The ether and the forces at a distance. With special consideration of wave telegraphy . Quandt & Handel, Leipzig 1898 ( digitized )
• Ions and electrons. A short presentation of the development and the justification of more recent views, especially the ion theory . Quandt & Handel, Leipzig 1905
• Meteorology . Stilke, Berlin 1928

literature

• Rudolf Vierhaus (Ed.): German Biographical Encyclopedia. 2nd edition. Volume 4. Saur, Munich 2006, p. 182 digitized

Web links

• Member entry of Wilhelm Grosse at the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Carl Hermann Knoblauch (Ed.): Leopoldina . Official organ of the Imperial Leopoldino-Carolinian German Academy of Natural Scientists. 26th issue. In commission at Wilh. Engelmann in Leipzig, Halle 1890, p. 43 ( biodiversitylibrary.org ).