Josef Geitler von Armingen
Josef Karl Franz Otto Geitler, Ritter von Armingen (14 September 1870 – 20 June 1923) was an Austrian physicist born in Smíchov, today a district in Prague. He is remembered for his investigations of electromagnetic waves.
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He studied in Prague and Bonn, later obtaining his habilitation at Prague. In 1906 he succeeded Alois Handl (1837-1915) as chair of experimental physics at the University of Czernowitz. In 1919, when Czernowitz became a Romanian university, Geitler relocated to Graz, where he taught classes at the Technische Universität Graz.
Among his scientific research were studies that explained differences between x-rays and cathode rays.[1] His best known publication was Elektromagnetische Schwingungen und Wellen, ("Electromagnetic oscillations and waves") (1905).[2]
He was a cousin to physicist Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894). Among his students at Czernowitz was Wojciech Rubinowicz (1889-1974).
References
- Scientists and mathematicians in Czernowitz University by Robert Rosner Archived 2011-09-02 at the Wayback Machine (biographical information)
- Parts of this article are based on a translation of an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia, namely: Österreichisches Biographisches Lexikon 1815-1950, Bd. 1, (Lfg. 5), S. 419
- "American X-ray Journal". American X-Ray Publishing Company. 30 May 1899 – via Google Books.
- Google Books Elektromagnetische Schwingungen und Well