Rudolf Seeliger

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Rudolf Seeliger (1886-1965).

  • Pioneer of gas discharge and Plasma Physics.
  • 1909 PhD Student of Arnold Sommerfeld.
  • 1918 Professor in Greifswald, Germany in 1918.
  • 1912 Fundamental discovery together with Ernst Gehrcke: Excitation of spectral lines via an electrical current through a gas requires characteristic minimal energies. James Franck and Gustav Hertz got a nobel prize in 1925 for similar experiments performed in 1912/1913.

[edit] Literature

  • R. Seeliger: The theory of the conduction of electricity in dense gases, Annalen der Physik 33 (12): 319-380, Aug. 1910.


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