Franz Harress
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Franz Harress (died circa 1915) was a mathematician and contemporary of Albert Einstein and is best known for his experiment on the propagation of light in a rotating glass device. This experiment sparked an argument between Albert Einstein and Paul Harzer related to the theory of Special Relativity.[1] Harress was a student of Professor Otto Julius Heinrich Knopf at Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena in 1912.[2] His dissertation was "Die Geschwindigkeit des Lichtes in bewegten Körpern" ("The speed of light in moving bodies").[3] His work on the Sagnac effect was analyzed by Max von Laue in his 1920 paper "On the Experiment of F. Harress."[4]
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- ^ "Volume 6: The Berlin Years: Writings, 1914-1917 page 28". einsteinpapers.press.princeton.edu.
- ^ "Otto Knopf - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu.
- ^ "Franz Harress - The Mathematics Genealogy Project". www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu.
- ^ "On the Experiment of F. Harress - Wikisource, the free online library". en.m.wikisource.org.
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