Fritz Reiche
Fritz Reiche (July 4, 1883 – January 14, 1969) was a German physicist, a student of Max Planck and a colleague of Albert Einstein, who was active in, and made important contributions to the early development of quantum mechanics including co-authoring the Thomas-Reiche-Kuhn sum rule.[1]
Fritz Reiche | |
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| Born | July 4, 1883 |
| Died | January 14, 1969 (aged 85) |
| Nationality | German |
| Education | University of Munich, University of Berlin |
| Occupation(s) | physicist, professor |
| Years active | 1913–1969 |
| Known for | quantum mechanics, supersonic flow |
| Notable work | The Quantum Theory |
Fritz Reiche was born in 1883 in Berlin, Germany. In 1901 and 1902, he attended the University of Munich and he attended the University of Berlin from 1902 to 1907, where he received his PhD.[2] From 1913 to 1920 as privatdozent he worked and taught under Planck in Berlin.[3] Reiche published more than 55 scientific papers and books including The Quantum Theory.[4][5]
He became a professor in 1921 at the University of Breslau and then was dismissed as a Jew from his academic position in 1933. Eventually, with the help of Ladenburg, Einstein, and the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars,[6][7] Reiche emigrated with his family to the United States in 1941 and went on to work with NASA and the United States Navy on projects related to supersonic flow.[2]
References
- Bederson, Benjamin (April 5, 2003). "Fritz Reiche and German Refugee Scientists". Speech Before American Physical Society, April Meeting, 2003. 2003: H8.004. Bibcode:2003APS..APR.H8004B.
- "Finding Aid to the Fritz Reiche Papers, 1907-1998". American Institute of Physics. Archived from the original on 4 June 2011. Retrieved 12 February 2010.
- "Fritz Reiche Dies; Was Theoretical Physicist". Physics Today. 22 (3): 119. March 1969. doi:10.1063/1.3035448.
- Stone, M. H. (1933). "Review: The Quantum Theory by Fritz Reiche; trans. by H. S. Hatfield and Henry L. Brose" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 39 (11): 856–857. doi:10.1090/S0002-9904-1933-05747-6.
- Phillips, H. B. (1922). "Review: Die Quantentheorie, ihr Ursprung und ihre Entwicklung by Fritz Reiche" (PDF). Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 28 (1): 69–70. doi:10.1090/s0002-9904-1922-03526-4.
- Oral History Transcript — Dr. Fritz Reiche, aip.org
- Bederson, Benjamin (December 2005), "Fritz Reiche and the Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars", Physics in Perspective, 7 (4): 453–472, Bibcode:2005PhP.....7..453B, doi:10.1007/s00016-005-0245-3, S2CID 121348637