Rudolf Seeliger

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Rudolf Seeliger (12 November 1886 – 20 January 1965) was a German physicist who specialized in electric discharges in gases and

plasma physics
.

From 1906 to 1909, Seeliger studied at the

University of Berlin. In 1918, he was called by Johannes Stark,[3] Director of the Institute of Physics at the University of Greifswald, to be extraordinarius professor there. In 1921, Seeliger took the position of ordinarius professor for theoretical physics at the University. He became Director of the Institute of Physics in 1940, and was succeeded in 1955, by Walter Schallreuter, who had been a co-author with Seeliger on a physics textbook series.[4][5][6][7][8]

In collaboration with

Gustav Hertz, nephew of Heinrich Hertz; for their discovery of the laws governing the impact of an electron upon an atom, Franck and Hertz were awarded the Nobel Prize in 1925.[9][10]

In 1946, Paul Schulz founded the Forschungsstelle für Gasentladungsphysik (Research Center for Gas Discharge Physics) under the Academy of Sciences. When Schulz left in 1949, Seeliger became director. In 1950, the center was renamed the Institut für Gasentladungsphysik (Institute for Gas Discharge Physics). In 1969, the institute was reassigned to the Zentralinstitut für Elektronenphysik (Central Institute of Electron Physics). On 31 December 1991 the Institut für Gasentladungsphysik was dissolved and reopened the next day as the Institut für Niedertemperatur-Plasmaphysik e.V. and became part of the

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Scientific Community.[11]

From 1946 to 1948, Seeliger was Rector of the University of Greifswald.[12]

Books

  • Rudolf Seeliger Einführung in die Physik der Gasentladungen (Barth, 1927)
  • Rudolf Seeliger and Geog Mierdel Allgemeine Eigenschaften der selbständigen Entladungen, die Bogenentladung (Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft m. b. h., 1929)
  • Rudolf Seeliger Angewandte Atomphysik; eine Einführung in die theoretischen Grundlagen (Springer, 1938 and 1944)
  • Rudolf Seeliger Die Grundbeziehungen der neuen Physik (Barth, 1948)
  • Carl Ernst Heinrich Grimsehl, Walter Schallreuter, and Rudolf Seeliger Lehrbuch der Physik. Bd. 1. Mechanik, Wärmelehre, Akustik (Teubner, 1951, 1954, 1955, 1957, 1962, and 1971)
  • Carl Ernst Heinrich Grimsehl, Walter Schallreuter, and Rudolf Seeliger Lehrbuch der Physik. Bd. 2. Elektromagnetisches Feld (Teubner, 1951, 1954, 1959, 1961, 1963, and 1967)
  • Carl Ernst Heinrich Grimsehl, Walter Schallreuter, and Rudolf Seeliger Lehrbuch der Physik. Bd. 3. Optik (Teubner, 1952, 1955, 1962, and 1969)
  • Carl Ernst Heinrich Grimsehl, Walter Schallreuter, and Rudolf Seeliger Lehrbuch der Physik. Bd. 4. Struktur der Materie (Teubner, 1959 and 1968)

References

Notes

  1. ^ Rudolf Seeliger The theory of the conduction of electricity in dense gases, Annalen der Physik 33 (12): 319-380, Aug. 1910
  2. ^ Seeliger – Gas discharge and plasma physics.
  3. ^ Plasma Technology – Stark Invited Seeliger to Greifswald
  4. ^ Greifswald – Directors of the Institute for Physics
  5. ^ Sommerfeld Biography Archived 2006-09-27 at the Wayback Machine – American Philosophical Society
  6. ^ Author Catalog: Seeliger Archived 2007-02-05 at the Wayback Machine – American Philosophical Society
  7. ^ Google Search: Rudolf Seeliger. Output link: Online Catalog, with the following link summary text: Online Catalog Rudolf Seeliger: 12.11.1886 - 20.01.1965 ; Jugendobjekt aus Anlaß des 100. Geburtstages Seeliger, Rudolf Greifswald. Univ.. 1986.
  8. ^ Sommerfeld Archived 2005-08-28 at the Wayback Machine – Personal Data
  9. ^ Mehra, 1982, Volume 1, Part 1, p. 197.
  10. ^ Ernst Gehrcke and Rudolf Seeliger Über das Leuchten der Gase unter dem Einfluss von Kathodenstrahlen, Verh. D. Deutsch. Phys. Ges. (2) 15, 534-539 (1912), cited in Mehra, Volume 1, Part 2, p. 776.
  11. ^ Seeliger – INP Greifswald
  12. ^ Rectors Greifswald
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