Ernst Lecher

Ernst Lecher (1 June 1856 – 19 July 1926) was an Austrian physicist who, from 1909, was head of the First Institute of Physics [1] in Vienna. He is remembered for developing an apparatus— "Lecher lines"—to measure the wavelength and frequency of electromagnetic waves.[2] He gave his name to the Ernst-Lecher-Institut, a radar research establishment set up in the 1940s in Reichenau, south of Vienna,[3] which is now a part of the German research institute Max Planck Institute.

Ernst Lecher (1919)

Lecher's father, Zacharias K Lecher,[4] was editor of Vienna's leading daily newspaper, Die Presse, and helped to publicise the discovery of X-rays of his German colleague Wilhelm Röntgen in 1896. Lecher's nephew, Konrad Zacharias Lorenz, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1973.[5]

Publications
  • Studie über elektr. Resonanzerscheinungen, 1890
  • Lehrbuch der Physik für Mediziner und Biologen, 1912

References
  1. Jagdish Mehra, Helmut Rechenberg, The Historical Development of Quantum Theory: V.1 Pt.2, p.73 et. seq., Springer, 2001, ISBN 0-387-95179-2, ISBN 978-0-387-95179-9 - some notes on the history of the First and Second Physical Institutes in Vienna
  2. "Ernst Lecher", Encyclopedia of Austria (online extract)
  3. "Henri Zemanek Interview", December 12, 1972, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Computer Oral History Collection, 1969-1973, 1977
  4. "Röntgen: Invisible Rays that Save Lives" Archived 2008-10-28 at the Wayback Machine, CMC - Vellore - History of Medicine Picture Collection
  5. John R. Krebs, Sverre Sjölander, Konrad Z. Lorenz For. Mem. R.S.(1903-1989), Konrad Lorenz Institute for Research on Evolution and Cognition
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