Wilhelm Messerschmidt (physicist)

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Wilhelm Messerschmidt (born March 6, 1906 in Luckenwalde , † October 25, 1975 in Halle / Saale ) was a German physicist.

Life

Messerschmidt attended humanistic grammar schools in Halle and Sangerhausen and then studied in Berlin, Munich and Halle. Under the influence of Gerhard Hoffmann (1880–1945) he began to be interested in cosmic rays in Halle . In 1933 Messerschmidt received his doctorate on the radioactivity of the atmosphere. After his habilitation in 1936, he went to the German Aviation Research Institute in Berlin. There he dealt with the propagation of electromechanical waves and radio measurement technology . After the war Messerschmidt returned to Halle, where he initially worked as a lecturer and was appointed professor in 1947. He was only allowed to resume work on cosmic rays in 1952; permanent registrations of cosmic rays began again on January 1, 1957. From 1960 to 1965 there was even a cosmic radiation working group of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR in Halle . Thanks to Messerschmidt's personal commitment, the research could be continued. In 1975 permanent registrations and work on cosmic rays in Halle were canceled.

After the Second World War, Wilhelm Messerschmidt continued the Natural Science Association for Saxony and Thuringia, which was founded in 1848 by Christian Gottfried Giebel . This association was one of the few that was not dissolved or integrated into the Kulturbund in 1949 . It continued to exist after Messerschmidt's death until it was finally dissolved in 1990. In 1958, the German Academy of Natural Scientists elected Leopoldina Wilhelm Messerschmidt as its member.

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinz Bethge , Günther Schmidt (1966): Wilhelm Messerschmidt 60 years. Physical sheets 22 (3): 134. doi : 10.1002 / phbl.19660220306
  2. ↑ Wilhelm Messerschmidt (1933): A new method for determining the emanation content of the atmosphere and its application to investigate the connections with the meteorological factors and the influence of the emanation content of the atmosphere on the measurements of the ultra-radiation. Zeitschrift für Physik 81 (1–2): 84–100. doi : 10.1007 / BF01341853
  3. ^ Wilhelm Messerschmidt (1936): Investigations into the residual current of ionization pressure chambers and the pressure dependency of the ionization by ultra-radiation. Zeitschrift für Physik 103 (1-2): 18-26. doi : 10.1007 / BF01338469
  4. ^ Wilhelm Messerschmidt (1936): Investigations into ultra-radiation shocks. Zeitschrift für Physik 103 (1-2): 27-56. doi : 10.1007 / BF01338470
  5. ↑ Wolfram Hergert (1993): Physics in a free balloon. Research on cosmic radiation and the physics of the atmosphere at the Physics Institute of the University of Halle in the years 1910–1937. Physical Sheets 49 (11): 1007-1010. doi : 10.1002 / phbl.19930491107
  6. ^ Rolf Gattermann & Volker Neumann (2005): History of zoology and the zoological collection at the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg from 1769 to 1990. Treatises of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig - Mathematical and Natural Science Class 63 (3): 55. ISBN 3-7776-1391-6 .
  7. ↑ Member entry of Wilhelm Messerschmidt at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on March 7, 2013.
personal data
SURNAME Messerschmidt, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German physicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 6, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Luckenwalde
DATE OF DEATH 1975
Place of death Halle / Saale