Wolfgang Gleißberg
Wolfgang Gleißberg (born December 26, 1903 in Breslau ; † August 23, 1986 in Oberursel ) was a German astronomer , mathematician and physicist .
As an assistant at the Wroclaw observatory, he was interested in, B. the change in the local state variables with the radius. In 1933 he was dismissed for "Jewish infiltration". He emigrated to Turkey and, together with Erwin Freundlich , who had also emigrated, set up a course in astronomy at the University of Istanbul, which resulted in a textbook in Turkish.
He achieved special merits in the field of sunspot research . Among other things, he discovered the 80-90-year-old Gleißberg cycle named after him. On the basis of the various patch cycles, he created a method of predicting solar activity , which Karl Rawer , among others, successfully used in his predictions of shortwave propagation.
Web links
- Literature by and about Wolfgang Gleißberg in the catalog of the German National Library
- Publications by W. Gleißberg in the Astrophysics Data System
- Biography at the University of Frankfurt
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| SURNAME | Gleissberg, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German astronomer, mathematician and physicist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 26, 1903 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wroclaw |
| DATE OF DEATH | 23rd August 1986 |
| Place of death | Oberursel |