Josef Meixner

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Josef Meixner (1908 – March 19, 1994 in Aachen, Germany) was a German theoretical physicist known for his work on the physics of deformable bodies, thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, Meixner polynomials, Meixner-Pollaczek polynomials, and spheroidal wave functions.^[1]

Contents 1 Education 2 Career 3 Selected Literature 4 Books 5 External Links 6 Notes

[edit] Education

Meixner began his studies in theoretical physics with Arnold Sommerfeld at the Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich in 1926. He was awarded his doctorate in 1931, with the submission of a thesis on the application of the Green function in quantum mechanics.^{[2] [3]}

[edit] Career

After the death of Sommerfeld in 1951, Meixner was an editor and contributor to new publications of three volumes of the six-volume Lectures on Theoretical Physics by Sommerfeld.^[4]

Meixner conducted research and taught graduate courses at the Institut für theoretische Physik of the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen (RWTH Aachen). Literature citations, as well as doctorates granted to his students, put Meixner at RWTH Aachen, or just Aachen, for years in each of the decades from the 1950s until his death in 1994. He was known for his work on the physics of deformable bodies (rheology), thermodynamics, statistical mechanics, Meixner polynomials, Meixner-Pollaczek polynomials, and spheroidal wave functions.^{[5] [6]}

[edit] Selected Literature

• J. Meixner Die Greensche Funktion des wellenmechanischen Keplerproblems, Mathematische Zeitschrift Volume 36, Number 1, Pages 677-707 (1933). This is Meixner’s doctoral thesis at Munich, submitted for publication 14 July 1931.

• J. Meixner (Aachen) On the Thermodynamic Theory of the Second Viscosity, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. Series A, Mathematical and Physical Sciences Vol. 226, No. 1164, pp. 51-56 (1954)

• J Meixner The entropy problem in thermodynamics of processes, Journal Rheologica Acta Volume 12, Number 3, Pages 465-467 (1973). Meixner is cited as being at the Institut für theoretische Physik, RWTH Aachen. Received: 27 October 1972.

• J. Meixner Constitutive equations of the differential type as approximations, Journal Rheologica Acta Volume 21, Numbers 4-5, Pages 398-399 (1982). Meixner is cited as being at the Institut für Theoretische Physik, Rhein.-Westf. Technische Hochschule Aachen, Germany. Received: 19 May 1982.

[edit] Books

• J. Meixner and F. W. Schafke Mathieusche Funktionen uns Sphäroidfunktionen (Springer-Verlag, 1954)
  • J. Meixner, F. W. Schäfke, and G. Wolf Mathieu functions and spheroidal functions and their mathematical foundations: further studies (Springer-Verlag, 1980)

• J. Meixner, editor Statistical Mechanics of Equilibrium and Non-equilibrium Proceedings of the International Symposium on Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics held June 15-20, 1964, in Aachen, Germany. (North-Holland Publishing Co., 1965)

[edit] External Links

• Meixner-Pollaczek Polynomials – Wolfram MathWorld

• Meixner Ploynomials 1st Kind – Wolfram MathWorld

• Meixner Polynomials 2nd Kind – Wolfram MathWorld

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Meixner – CIO NIST
2. ^ Sommerfeld Biography – American Philosophical Society
3. ^ Meixner – Mathematics Genealogy Project. Ph.D. Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München 1931. Dissertation title: Die Greensche Funktion des wellenmechanischen Keplerproblems.
4. ^ Meixner edited and contributed to Sommerfeld’s Volume II: Mechanics of Deformable Bodies (1959), Volume III: Electrodynamics (1961, 1964, and 1967), and Volume V: Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics (1952, 1962, and 1965). See Sommerfeld Bibliography – Sommerfeld Project.
5. ^ Meixner – CIO NIST
6. ^ Meixner – Mathematics Genealogy Project. Meixner is cited as having been the Ph.D. thesis advisor for students in 1962, 1964, and 1967, at the Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen.