Voigt, Woldemar

Woldemar Voigt (^∗September 2, 1850, in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony; †December 13, 1919, in Göttingen, Germany) was a German physicist.

Woldemar Voigt

Education

Voigt got his school education up to 1867 at the famous St. Thomas School in Leipzig. He was an enthusiastic musician. He studied from 1868 up to 1870 Mathematics and Physics at the Leipzig University. When he was 20 years old, he took part in the German-French war (1870–1871) as an officer. From 1871 up to 1874, he was a student at the University of Königsberg, and among his teachers was Franz Ernst Neumann. He obtained his PhD in 1874 with a thesis on the elastic behavior of rock salt.

Professional Carrier

From 1875 up to 1883, he was appointed as extraordinary professor of Physics at the University of Königsberg. In 1883 he became a full professor of Theoretical Physics at the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Göttingen. At the same time, he was appointed as the director of the new established Institute of Theoretical...