Wilhelm Hiller (geophysicist)

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Wilhelm Gustav Paul Hiller (born February 2, 1899 in Altdorf , Boeblingen district , Württemberg ; † July 31, 1980 in Stuttgart ), Protestant , was a German geophysicist , seismologist and university professor .

Life

A native of Altdorfer Wilhelm Hiller, son of the headmaster senior Wilhelm Hiller and his wife Berta born Wanner, devoted himself to the High School to the study of physics at the Technical University of Stuttgart and at the University of Tübingen , which he in 1927 of Stuttgart with the acquisition academic degree of Dr.-Ing. completed.

Wilhelm Hiller received a position as a research assistant at the Württemberg earthquake service in 1923 , after 1945 the Baden-Württemberg State Earthquake Service (LED) in Stuttgart, where he was entrusted with the management in 1934, and in 1962 he resigned from his position. At the same time , Hiller completed his habilitation in 1939 as a private lecturer in geophysics at the Technical University of Stuttgart, where he was appointed honorary professor in 1950 , full professor in 1962 , and retired in 1967 . In addition, Hiller held an honorary professorship at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen from 1957.

Wilhelm Hiller also acted as first chairman of the German Geophysical Society from 1951 to 1953, as president of the European Seismological Commission from 1951 to 1956, and from 1956 to 1959 as head of the Seismology and Physics of the Earth's interior in the German Union for Geodesy and Geophysics. Wilhelm Hiller was elected a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 1943 .

As part of his research, Hiller invented the “Stuttgart” type close-range seismograph.

In 1928 Wilhelm Hiller married Tilly Streich and had three children with her. He died on July 31, 1980 at the age of 81 in Stuttgart.

publication

  • About the speed of the seismic surface waves during worldquakes, in particular their dependence on the geophysical nature of the path traveled. Dissertation . Academic publishing company Geest & Portig, Leipzig 1927.

literature

personal data
SURNAME Hiller, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hiller, Wilhelm Gustav Paul (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geophysicist, seismologist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Altdorf , Boeblingen district , Württemberg
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1980
Place of death Stuttgart