Walter Robert Wilhelm Grotrian ( German: Walter Robert Wilhelm Grotrian ; April 21, 1890 , Aachen - March 3, 1954 , Potsdam ) is a German astrophysicist.
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The son of an electrical engineering professor in Aachen. He graduated from the University of Gottingen , a student of Voldemar Vogt . Then, under the influence of Karl Runge became interested in astrophysics.
He taught at the University of Potsdam , in 1921 he was habilitated there . From 1922 he worked at the Potsdam Astrophysical Observatory . In 1930, he was one of the founders of the magazine Zeitschrift für Astrophysik and was co-editor until the end of his life. Since the beginning of the Second World War in military service, for some time was at the Luftwaffe , in 1940 after the occupation of Norway, was engaged in setting up the work of the observatory in Tromsø . In 1941 he occupied the position of executive director of the German Physical Society . Later again in military service, was a major of the Wehrmacht.
The most significant scientific contribution of Grotrian is associated with spectrography and, in particular, with the study of the spectrum of the solar corona; a breakthrough in the interpretation of its spectral characteristics associated with the work of Grotrian in the composition of the expedition of Erwin Freindlich in 1929 on the island of Sumatra . In 1948, he was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Physics [2] for services in this field.
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- ↑ 1 2 3 4 German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 116878843 // Common Regulatory Control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ Nomination Archive