Josef Geitler von Armingen
Austrian physicist
Died when: 52 years 279 days (633 months)Star Sign: Virgo
Josef Karl Franz Otto Geitler, Ritter von Armingen (14 September 1870 – 20 June 1923) was an Austrian physicist born in Smíchov, today a district in Prague.
He is remembered for his investigations of electromagnetic waves.He studied in Prague and Bonn, later obtaining his habilitation at Prague.
In 1906 he succeeded Alois Handl (1837-1915) as chair of experimental physics at the University of Czernowitz.In 1919, when Czernowitz became a Romanian university, Geitler relocated to Graz, where he taught classes at the Technische Universität Graz.
Among his scientific research were studies that explained differences between x-rays and cathode rays.His best known publication was Elektromagnetische Schwingungen und Wellen, ("Electromagnetic oscillations and waves") (1905).
He was a cousin to physicist Heinrich Hertz (1857-1894).Among his students at Czernowitz was Wojciech Rubinowicz (1889-1974).
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