Wilhelm Müller (physicist)

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Wilhelm Carl Gottlieb Müller (born September 25, 1880 in Hamburg , † June 15, 1968 in Augsburg ) was a German physicist , mathematician and philosopher . He was Arnold Sommerfeld's successor at the chair for theoretical physics at the University of Munich .

The occupation of this professorship, which had been vacant for several years, was at the center of the disputes between established modern physics and the ideological " German physicists " and went down in the history of science as the Pyrrhic victory of German physics.

The aerodynamicist Wilhelm Müller had not emerged as a theoretical physicist until then, belonged to Hugo Dingler's circle as a representative of German physics , and was described by Sommerfeld himself, who favored Heisenberg, as the “worst possible successor”, but enjoyed the support of the NS -Ruler.

Müller also published under the name Wilhelm Müller-Walbaum .

Life

Wilhelm Müller was born in Hamburg as the son of a businessman. He passed his Abitur at the secondary school in front of the Holstentor in 1902. He then studied at several universities. In 1910 he passed the rigorosum in the subjects of mathematics, physics and philosophy at the University of Leipzig with the grade very good , and received his doctorate in January 1911. The subject of his dissertation was " The rational curve of the fifth order in the five-, four-, three- and two-dimensional space ”.

Müller completed his habilitation at the TH Hannover , where he became a private lecturer in 1921 and was later given an extraordinary professorship.

In 1928 Wilhelm Müller was appointed full professor at the Karl Ferdinand University in Prague .

On May 1, 1933 , Müller joined the NSDAP ; In 1936 he joined the SA .

In 1934 Müller became a professor of mechanics at RWTH Aachen University and finally received the chair of theoretical physics at the University of Munich in 1939 as the successor to Arnold Sommerfeld. In 1945 he was released.

See also

Works

  • 1911 - The rational curve of the fifth order in five-, four-, three- and two-dimensional space ; Dissertation, University of Leipzig, Rohn, Hölder
  • 1920 - The world as guilt and parable (reviewed by Siegfried Kracauer in: Frankfurter Zeitung of July 6, 1921; Literature Journal No. 14)
  • 1921/22 - On the theory of cyclical flow around wing profiles , habilitation
  • 1922 - The sense of chastity
  • 1925 - dynamics (1952)
  • 1925 - The Eternal Grail
  • 1928 - Mathematical fluid mechanics
  • 1932 - Introduction to the Theory of Viscous Liquids
  • 1933 - Judaism and leadership
  • 1936 - Introduction to the mechanics of flight (1942, 1953, 1958)
  • 1936 - Judaism and Science
  • 1941 - with Johannes Stark : Jewish and German physics. Lectures at the University of Munich , 1941
  • 1944 - battle in physics
  • 1959 - Theory of elastic deformation

literature

  • Freddy Litten: Mechanics and Anti-Semitism: Wilhelm Müller (1880-1968) . Institute for the History of Natural Sciences, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-89241-035-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ulrich Kalkmann: The Technical University of Aachen in the Third Reich (1933-1945) . Verlag Mainz, Aachen 2003, p. 330, FN. 3.

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personal data
SURNAME Müller, Wilhelm
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Müller, Wilhelm Carl Gottlieb (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist, mathematician, philosopher and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1880
PLACE OF BIRTH Hamburg
DATE OF DEATH June 15, 1968
Place of death augsburg