Friedrich Kottler
Friedrich Kottler (December 10, 1886 – May 11, 1965) was an Austrian theoretical physicist. He was a Privatdozent before he got a professorship in 1923 at the University of Vienna.
In 1938, after the Anschluss, he lost his professorship due to his Jewish ancestry. With the help of Albert Einstein and Wolfgang Pauli, he immigrated to America from his hometown of Vienna, Austria, settling in Rochester, New York, where he worked at the Eastman Kodak Research Laboratory.[1] [2]
Besides optics, Kottler's professional pursuits focused on the theory of relativity. In 1912, he presented a general covariant formulation of the electromagnetic equations, based on the absolute differential calculus, which is also valid within Albert Einstein's General Relativity, before that theory was even developed. In this connection, Kottler worked on the description of accelerations and rotations in relativity. In 1918, Kottler created his own interpretation of general relativity. In 1922, he published the article "Gravitation und Relativitätstheorie" in Band 6 of Klein's encyclopedia.
He died in Rochester, New York in 1965.
Published works
- 1912: Über die Raumzeitlinien der Minkowski'schen Welt, Wiener Sitzungsberichte 2a, 121: 1659-1759
- 1914: Relativitätsprinzip und beschleunigte Bewegung, Annalen der Physik 349 (13), 701-748
- 1914: Fallende Bezugssysteme vom Standpunkte des Relativitätsprinzips, Annalen der Physik 349 (13), 701-748
- 1916: Beschleunigungsrelative Bewegungen und die konforme Gruppe der Minkowski'schen Welt, Wiener Sitzungsberichte 2a, 125, 899-919
- 1916: Über Einsteins Äquivalenzhypothese und die Gravitation, Annalen der Physik 355 (16), 955-972
- 1918: Über die physikalischen Grundlagen der Einsteinschen Relativitätstheorie, Annalen der Physik, 4. Folge, Bd.60, S.401-461
- 1921: Rotierende Bezugssysteme in einer Minkowskischen Welt, Physikalische Zeitschrift 22, 274-280 & 480-484
- 1922, Gravitation und Relativitätstheorie, Encyklopädie der mathematischen Wissenschaften mit Einschluss ihrer Anwendungen, 6.2.2, 159-237
- 1924, Considerations de critique historique sur la theorie de la relativite. Partie 1: De Fresnel à Lorentz, Scientia, 36, pp. 231–242
- 1924, Considerations de critique historique sur la theorie de la relativite. Partie 2: Henri Poincaré et Albert Einstein, Scientia, 36, pp. 301–316
