Heinrich Mache
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Heinrich Mache (27 April 1876 – 1 September 1954) was an Austrian physicist. He won the Haitinger Prize of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in 1915.[1]
Life
Born in Prague, after his secondary school studies, Mache completed the first year of physics in Prague, among other things, heard lectures by
Technical University Vienna. He was the successor of Friedrich Hasenöhrl
. He died in Vienna.
Noteworthy relatives
His wife was the granddaughter of the great geologist Eduard Suess.
Tributes and memorials
In 1966 in Donau City (22nd District), Vienna, the Makegasse (Mache Alley) was named in his honor.
Research, interests and achievements
His research was mainly
radioactivity, thermodynamics, atmospheric electricity, and the physics of combustion phenomena. He developed with Ludwig Flamm a theory of combustion of explosive gas mixtures. Due to his work with radon, the now unusual unit Mache
was named for describing the activity of radioactive medicinal waters.
- Wilhelm Exner Medal, 1927
Mache continued the Zippermayr Group experiments with early Carbon-Oxygen Fuel–air explosives, which SS sought to develop in Austria during the WWII, under the Soviets in late 1945.[2]
Mache unit
The
pCi
L−1.
References
- ^ "Hall of Fame: Heinrich Mache" (in German). Vienna, Austria: Technische Universität Wien. 18 December 2015. Retrieved 9 January 2016.
- ^ Karlsch, Rainer (24 September 2007). "Massenvernichtungswaffe: Großvaters Vakuumbombe" [Weapon of Mass Destruction: Grandfather's Vacuum Bomb]. Faz.net (in German). Archived from the original on 2020-08-11. Retrieved 2020-06-03.
- ^ Riezler, Wolfgang [in German] (1950). Einführung in die Kernphysik (in German) (4th ed.). H. Hübener. p. 309.
Further reading
- Rechenberg, Helmut (1987). "Mache, Heinrich". Neue deutsche Biographie (in German). Volume 15. Berlin: Duncker & Humblot. pp. 611–612. ISBN 3-428-00196-6. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
- "Heinrich Mache" (in German). Wilhelm Exner Medal Foundation. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 24 May 2014.
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