XXIX ESC General Assembly, Sept. 12-17, 2004 - GFZ

Erwin F. FREUNDLICH
(1885-1965)
First director
of the ET
(until 1933).
His expedition in 1914 to Crimea to prove the
relativistic light deflection during a total solar
eclipse failed due to outbrake of WWI. He and
his team were detained and the instruments
confiscated. (The prove was only achieved in 1919
by a British expedition under Arthur S. Eddington)
1939 Walter GROTRIAN (1890-1954)
discovers 2 „forbidden“ spectral lines
→ transitions in highly ionized atoms
→ calculation of T in sun corona (>1Mio°K)
→ GROTRIAN term schemata →
Peter Bormann XXIX ESC General Assembly, Sept. 12-17, 2004