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About Prof. Dr. Erwin Fritz Finlay Freundlich
immigrated to Istanbul from 1933
Professorship in Prague in 1939 flight to Holland, then St. Andrews University in Scotland in 1959 to Wiesbaden
Personality and Interests: Freundlich was the son of a Scottish mother, Ellen Elizabeth Finlayson, and Friedrich Philipp Ernst-friendly, the director of an iron foundry in Wiesbaden-Biebrich. He received his Ph.D. in 1910 in Göttingen at Felix Klein about a problem of analytic function theory, and then became an assistant at the Berlin Observatory, where he was responsible for routine measurements. 1911, the young physicist published at the Charles University in Prague Albert Einstein a later version of the general theory of relativity: On the influence of gravity on the propagation of light (Ann. Phys 35 (1911) 898.). He said a deflection of light rays tangentially graze the edge of the sun, of only 0 ".85 arc seconds ahead. (In the final version of 1915/6, the value increased to 1" .75 by taking into account the curvature of space.) His colleague, the astronomer Leo Wenzel Pollak, sought astronomers should observe this effect. All experienced astronomers saw no chance. Freundlich, who wanted to escape the stupid routine activities, accepted the challenge with enthusiasm. Thus began a long association with Einstein. First he tried to determine the deflection of light rays in the gravitational field of the sun from old eclipse photo plates. This failed because the recordings for other goals were optimized. But by publishing the negative result in 1913, two years before the publication of the final version of general relativity, the ideas of the relatively unknown professor at the Charles University of Prague became known in German circles astronomers. In the solar eclipse of 21 August 1914 in Russia he would then provide the experimental evidence. The expedition was specifically prepared as of April 1914, and also performed but failed because of the outbreak of the First World War. Friendly were interned in Russia. Even with another solar eclipse expeditions to 1954 could ke ...
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Prof. Dr. Erwin Fritz Finlay Freundlich's Timeline
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May 29, 1885
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Wiesbaden Biebrich, Hesse, Germany
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| 1964 |
July 24, 1964
Age 79
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Wiesbaden Biebrich, Hesse, Germany
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Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
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