Erich Regener

Erich Regener

Infobox Scientist
box_width =
name = Erich Regener



image_size =
caption = Erich Regener, May 1929
birth_date = 12 November 1881
birth_place = Schleusenau, West Prussia
death_date = 27 February 1955
death_place = Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg
residence =
citizenship = German
nationality = German
ethnicity =
fields = Experimental physicist
workplaces = Agricultural University of Berlin
University of Stuttgart
alma_mater = University of Berlin
doctoral_advisor = Emil Warburg
academic_advisors =
doctoral_students = Hans Hellmann
notable_students =
known_for = Instruments to measure cosmic rays at various altitudes
author_abbrev_bot =
author_abbrev_zoo =
influences =
influenced =
awards =
religion =


footnotes =

Erich Rudolf Alexander Regener (12 November 1881 – 27 February 1955) was a German physicist known primarily for the design and construction of instruments to measure cosmic ray intensity at various altitudes.

Regener was born in Schleusenau (Wilczak) near Bromberg (Bydgoszcz), West Prussia. He studied physics from 1900 to 1905 at the University of Berlin under Emil Warburg and from 1909 worked with Heinrich Rubens. In 1911 he became professor of experimental physics and meteorology at the Agricultural University of Berlin. In 1920 he became the professor in experimental physics at the University of Stuttgart working alongside the theoretical physicist Paul Peter Ewald. During this time, he developed instruments to measure cosmic rays at various altitudes. Bruno Rossi wrote of this period that "In the late 1920s and early 1930s the technique of self-recording electroscopes carried by balloons into the highest layers of the atmosphere or sunk to great depths under water was brought to an unprecedented degree of perfection by the German physicist Erich Regener and his group. To these scientists we owe some of the most accurate measurements ever made of cosmic-ray ionization as a function of altitude and depth." [*cite book | last=Rossi | first=Bruno |title=Cosmic Rays | location=New York | publisher=McGraw-Hill | year=1964 | isbn=536242 ] Ernest Rutherford stated in 1931 that "thanks to the fine experiments of Professor Millikan and the even more far-reaching experiments of Professor Regener, we have now got for the first time, a curve of absorption of these radiations in water which we may safely rely upon." [cite journal | date = 1931 | title = Discussion on Ultra-Penetrating Rays | journal = Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A | volume = 132 | pages = 331 ] .

In 1937 Regener was forced into "provisional retirement" by the National Socialists. He then founded the private "Research Laboratory for the Physics of the Stratosphere" in Friedrichshafen on Lake Constance, which later became a part of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society. In 1939 he was invited to work at the German Army-Air Force rocket research station in Peenemünde where he developed a spectograph protected by a steel casing. This instrument, later called the "Regener-Tonne" was the first scientific payload for a rocket designed to reach high altitude. After a successful test flight the project was cancelled in September 1944 and the rockets were used as long-range missiles against Britain. In 1948 Regener was appointed the first vice president of the Max Planck Society. He was also cofounder of the Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research with Walter Dieminger and was instrumental in attracting physicists back to post-war Germany.

Regener was the father of Victor H. Regener [http://panda.unm.edu/operations/RegenerTribute/VictorHRegener_AMemoir-corrected%20version%20-%20Swinson.html] and Erika Regener. Erika Regener later married one of Erich Regener's students, Henri Daniel Rathgeber.

Publications

* "Über die chemische Wirkung kurzwelliger Strahlung auf gasförmige Körper", Dissertation, Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin, 12. Aug. 1905

* cite journal
last = Meyer
first = E
authorlink =
coauthors = and Erich Regener
date = 1908
title = Concerning Oscillation of Radioactive Radiation and a Method for Determining the Electric Element Quantum
journal = Annalen Der Physik
volume = 25
issue = 4
pages = 757-774
language = German

* cite journal
last = Regener
first = Erich
date = 1909
title = On Counting the Alpha Particles by Scintillation and on the Size of the Electrical Elementary Quantum
journal = Sitzungsberichte der Koniglich Preussischen Akademie Der Wissenschaften
pages = 948-965
language = German

* cite journal
last = Regener
first = Erich
date = 1913
title = The New Attempts of C T R Wilson for the Visualisation of the Tracks of Radiation Rays
journal = Naturwissenschaften
pages = 299-301
language = German

* "Über Kathoden-, Röntgen- und Radiumstrahlen", Rede, geh. in d. Kgl. Landwirtschaftlichen Hochschule zu Berlin am 26. Jan. 1915. Berlin ; Wien : Urban & Schwarzenberg, 1915
* "Über die Ursache, welche bei den Versuchen von Hrn. F. Ehrenhaft die Existenz eines Subelektrons vortäuscht", Berlin 1920 (Sitzungsbericht d. Preuss. Akademie d. Wiss. Phys.-math. Kl. 1920)

* cite journal
quotes =
last = Regener
first = Erich
coauthors = , Lise Meitner and P. Jordan
date = 1927
title = Besprechungen
journal = Die Naturwissenschaften
volume = 15
issue = 38
pages = 789-792
doi = 10.1007/BF01504664
language = German

* cite journal
quotes =
last = Regener
first = Erich
coauthors = and Victor H. Regener
date = 1934
title = Aufnahmen des ultravioletten Sonnenspektums in der Stratosphäre und vertikale Ozonverteilun
journal = Phys. Z.
volume = 35
pages = 788-793
language = German

* cite journal
quotes =
last = Regener
first = Erich
coauthors = and George Pfotzer
date = November 1935
title = Vertical Intensity of Cosmic Rays by Threefold Coincidences in the Stratosphere
journal = Nature
volume = 136
pages = 718-719

* "Über Ballone mit großer Steiggeschwindigkeit, Thermographen von geringer Trägheit, Quarzbarographen und über die Kondensation und Sublimation von Wasserdampfes bei tiefen Temperaturen", München; Berlin: Oldenbourg, 1941 (Schriften d. Dt. Akademie d. Luftfahrtforschung 37)
* "Aufbau und Zusammensetzung der Stratosphäre", München; Berlin: Oldenbourg, 1941 (Schriften der Deutschen Akademie der Luftfahrtforschung 46)
* "Optische Interferenzen an dünnen, bei 190 °C kondensierten Eisschichten", 1954

Notes

References

* cite journal
last = Globig
first = Michael
year = 2007
month = January
title = Balloons and Barrels in Space
journal = Max Planck Research
url = http://www.mpg.de/english/illustrationsDocumentation/multimedia/mpResearch/2007/heft01/017/pdf19.pdf

* cite journal
quotes =
last = Blackett
first = P.M.S.
authorlink = Patrick Blackett
date = 25th June 1955
title = Prof. E. Regener
journal = Nature
volume = 175
pages = 1107-1108

* Paetzold, H. K. et al., "Erich Regener als Wegbereiter der extraterrestrischen Physik", in: H. Birett et al. (Hrsg.), "Zur Geschichte der Geophysik", Springer, Berlin 1974, pp.167–188.

* cite book
last= Pfotzer
first= George
authorlink=
coauthors=
editor= Yataro Sekido and Harry Elliot
others=
title = Early History of Cosmic Ray Studies
series=Astrophysics and Space Science Library
volume= 118
year= 1985
publisher= D. Riedel Publishing Company
location= Dordrecht, Holland
chapter = Erich Regener's Cosmic Ray Work in Stuttgart and Related Subjects

* Priesner, C., "Regener, Erich Rudolph Alexander" in: "Neue Deutsche Biographie". Bd. 21, Berlin 2003, pp. 258–260.


Wikimedia Foundation. 2010.

Игры ⚽ Поможем сделать НИР

Look at other dictionaries:

  • Erich Regener — im Mai 1929 Erich Rudolph Alexander Regener (* 12. November 1881 in Schleusenau bei Bromberg, Westpreußen; † 27. Februar 1955 in Stuttgart) war ein deutscher Physiker. Regener studierte von 1900 bis 1905 an der Universität Berlin Physik. Er war e …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Regener — ist der Familienname folgender Personen: Erich Regener (1881–1955), deutscher Physiker Victor Regener (1913–2006), deutscher Physiker, Sohn von Erich Regener Michael Regener (* 1965), deutscher Sänger Sven Regener (* 1961), deutscher Musiker und… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Regener-Tonne — ( Prof. Erich Regener s barrel ) was the name of the first scientific payload for a Rocket to reach high altitude. Developed from 1942 to 1945, it was supposed to be launched with a A4 (V 2) to examine the high atmosphere in order to improve the… …   Wikipedia

  • Regener-Tonne — Die Regener Tonne war die erste wissenschaftliche Nutzlast für eine Rakete in großer Höhe. Sie wurde unter der Leitung von Erich Regener von 1942 bis 1945 entwickelt und sollte mit einer A4 Rakete in eine Höhe von 50 km gebracht werden, um… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Regener — Regener,   Erich, Physiker, * Schleusenau (bei Bromberg) 12. 11. 1881, ✝ Stuttgart 27. 2. 1955; Professor in Stuttgart; bestimmte 1909 die elektrische Elementarladung mit einer von ihm entwickelten Szintillationsmethode. Später wandte er sich der …   Universal-Lexikon

  • Henri Daniel Rathgeber — (11 June 1908– July 1995) was an Australian physicist who studied cosmic rays but considered his most important contribution to be an economic theory that explain how entropy causes unemployment.Rathgeber was born in Paris, Montmartre on 11th… …   Wikipedia

  • Liste der Biografien/Reg — Biografien: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Polytechnikum Stuttgart — Vorlage:Infobox Hochschule/Träger fehltVorlage:Infobox Hochschule/Professoren fehlt Universität Stuttgart Gründung 1829 (Vereinigte Real und Gewerbeschu …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Stuttgart Universität — Vorlage:Infobox Hochschule/Träger fehltVorlage:Infobox Hochschule/Professoren fehlt Universität Stuttgart Gründung 1829 (Vereinigte Real und Gewerbesch …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • TH Stuttgart — Vorlage:Infobox Hochschule/Träger fehltVorlage:Infobox Hochschule/Professoren fehlt Universität Stuttgart Gründung 1829 (Vereinigte Real und Gewerbesch …   Deutsch Wikipedia

Share the article and excerpts

Direct link
Do a right-click on the link above
and select “Copy Link”