Walter Gordon (August 13, 1893 - December 24, 1939) - German theoretical physicist .
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Biography
Walter Gordon was the son of businessman Arnold Gordon and his wife Bianca Gordon (née Brann) [2] . The family moved to Switzerland in his early years. In 1900, he attended school in St. Gallen and in 1915 he began studying mathematics and physics at the University of Berlin [3] . He received his doctorate in 1921 under the leadership of Max Planck . In 1922, while still a student at Berlin University, Gordon became an assistant to Max von Laue . In 1925, he worked for several months in Manchester with William Bragg and later at the Kaiser Wilhelm Society for Fiber Chemistry in Berlin . In 1926, he moved to Hamburg , where he reached Casper in 1929. In 1930, he became a professor. He married a resident of Hamburg, Gertrude Lobbenberg in 1932 [2] . Gordon moved to Stockholm in 1933 due to the political situation in Germany. There, the scientist worked at the university in the field of mechanics and mathematical physics .
Famous works
Oscar Klein and Walter Gordon proposed the Klein-Gordon equation , a quantum description of particles in the framework of the special theory of relativity .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ 1 2 Historische Kommission bei der bayrischen Akademie der Wissenschaft: Neue deutsche Biographie, sechster Band : [] . - Duncker & Humblot, 1964 .-- P. 646-647.
- ↑ = Walter Gordon (1893-1939) (German) . Institut für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften - Universität Hamburg. Date of treatment March 24, 2009. Archived July 12, 2013.
Sources
- Hramov Yu. A. Gordon, Walter // Physicists: Biographical Reference / Ed. A.I. Akhiezer . - Ed. 2nd, rev. and add. - M .: Nauka , 1983 .-- S. 90 .-- 400 p. - 200,000 copies. (per.)
- Poggendorff, JC (Hrsg.): JC Poggendorffs biographisch-literarisches Handwörterbuch. Bd. VI (1923-1931). Berlin: Verlag Chemie GmbH, 1936.
- Bebus, Allen G .: World Whos Who in Science. Hanibal, Missouri: Western Publishing Company, 1968.
- Ullmann, Dieter: Ein Bild des Quantenphysikers Walter Gordon. Apoldaer Heimat 14 (1996) 39