Josef Meixner

Josef Meixner (1908 – March 19, 1994 in Aachen, Germany) was a German theoretical physicist known for his work on the physics of deformable bodies, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, Meixner polynomials, Meixner-Pollaczek polynomials, and spheroidal wave functions. [ [http://cio.nist.gov/esd/emaildir/lists/opsfnet/msg00028.html Meixner] – CIO NIST]

Education

Meixner began his studies in theoretical physics with Arnold Sommerfeld at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich in 1926. He was awarded his doctorate in 1931, with the submission of a thesis on the application of the Green function in quantum mechanics. [ [http://www.amphilsoc.org/library/guides/ahqp/bios.htm Sommerfeld Biography] – American Philosophical Society] [ [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/html/id.phtml?id=48491 Meixner] – Mathematics Genealogy Project. Ph.D. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 1931. Dissertation title: "Die Greensche Funktion des wellenmechanischen Keplerproblems".]

Career

After Sommerfeld’s death in 1951, Meixner edited a volume and new editions of two other volumes of Sommerfeld’s six-volume "Vorlesungen über theoretische Physik".

Meixner conducted research and taught graduate courses at the "Institut für theoretische Physik" of the "Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen" (RWTH Aachen). Literature citations, as well as doctorates granted to his students, put Meixner at RWTH Aachen, or just Aachen, for years in each of the decades from the 1950s until his death in 1994. He was known for his work on the physics of deformable bodies (rheology), thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, Meixner polynomials, Meixner-Pollaczek polynomials, and spheroidal wave functions. [ [http://cio.nist.gov/esd/emaildir/lists/opsfnet/msg00028.html Meixner] – CIO NIST] [ [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/html/id.phtml?id=48491 Meixner] – Mathematics Genealogy Project. Meixner is cited as having been the Ph.D. thesis advisor for students in 1962, 1964, and 1967, at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen.]

elected Literature

*cite journal|last=Meixner|first=J.|coauthors=|year=1933|title=Die Greensche Funktion des wellenmechanischen Keplerproblems|url=|journal=Mathematische Zeitschrift|issn=|volume=36|issue=1|pages=677–707|doi=. This is Meixner’s doctoral thesis at Munich, submitted for publication 14 July 1931.

*cite journal|last=Meixner|first=J.|coauthors=|year=1954|title=On the Thermodynamic Theory of the Second Viscosity|url=|journal=Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences|issn=|volume=226|issue=1164|pages=51–56|doi=

*cite journal|last=Meixner|first=J.|coauthors=|year=1973|title=The entropy problem in thermodynamics of processes|url=|journal=Rheologica Acta|issn=0035-4511|volume=12|issue=3|pages=465–467|doi=10.1007/BF01503000. Meixner is cited as being at the "Institut für theoretische Physik, RWTH Aachen". Received: 27 October 1972.

*cite journal|last=Meixner|first=J.|coauthors=|year=1982|title=Constitutive equations of the differential type as approximations|url=|journal=Rheologica Acta|issn=0035-4511|volume=21|issue=4-5|pages=398–399|doi=. Meixner is cited as being at the "Institut für Theoretische Physik, Rhein.-Westf. Technische Hochschule" Aachen, Germany. Received: 19 May 1982.

Books

*J. Meixner and F. W. Schafke "Mathieusche Funktionen uns Sphäroidfunktionen" (Springer-Verlag, 1954)
**J. Meixner, F. W. Schäfke, and G. Wolf "Mathieu functions and spheroidal functions and their mathematical foundations: further studies" (Springer-Verlag, 1980)

*J. Meixner, editor "Statistical Mechanics of Equilibrium and Non-equilibrium" Proceedings of the International Symposium on Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics held June 15-20, 1964, in Aachen, Germany. (North-Holland Publishing Co., 1965)

Edited Books

Sommerfeld, Arnold "Vorlesungen über theoretische Physik. Band 5: Thermodynamik und Statistik. Herausgegeben von Fritz Bopp und Josef Meixner." (Diederich, 1952)

Sommerfeld, Arnold "Vorlesungen über theoretische Physik. Band 2: Optik. 2. Auflage, bearbeitet und ergänzt von Fritz Bopp und Josef Meixner." (Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, 1959)

Sommerfeld, Arnold "Vorlesungen über theoretische Physik. Band 3: Elektrodynamik. 3. Auflage, bearbeitet und ergänzt von Fritz Bopp und Josef Meixner." (Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft, 1961)

External links

* [http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Meixner-PollaczekPolynomial.html Meixner-Pollaczek Polynomials] – Wolfram MathWorld

* [http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Meixner-PollaczekPolynomial.html Meixner Ploynomials 1st Kind] – Wolfram MathWorld

* [http://mathworld.wolfram.com/MeixnerPolynomialoftheSecondKind.html Meixner Polynomials 2nd Kind] – Wolfram MathWorld

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