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Jul 01, 1878 Berlin Died on 25 Jan 1960 (aged 81)
German physicist
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About Ernst Gehrcke
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- Gehrcke (1 July 1878 in Berlin – 25 January 1960 in Hohen-Neuendorf) was a German experimental physicist.
- He was director of the optical department at the Reich Physical and Technical Institute.
- Concurrently, he was a professor at the University of Berlin.
- He developed the Lummer–Gehrcke method in interferometry, he discovered anode rays, and he developed the multiplex interferometric spectroscope for precision resolution of spectral-line structures.
- As an anti-relativist, he was a speaker at an event organized in 1920 by the Working Society of German Scientists.
- He sat on the board of trustees of the Potsdam Astrophysical Observatory.
- After World War II, he worked at Carl Zeiss Jena, and he helped to develop and become the director of the Institute for Physiological Optics at the University of Jena.
- In 1949, he began work at the German Office for Materials and Product Testing.
- In 1953, he became the director of the optical department of the German Office for Weights and Measures.
