Mathematician:Max Abraham

Mathematician

German physicist who studied under Max Planck.

Developed a theory of the electron in $1902$ which was later superseded by different models.

Nationality

German

History

• Born: 26 March 1875 in Danzig, Germany (now Gdańsk, Poland)
• Died: 16 November 1922 in Munich, Germany

Theorems and Definitions

• Abraham-Lorentz-Dirac Force (with Hendrik Antoon Lorentz and Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac)

Publications

• 1904: Theorie der Elektrizität: Einführung in die Maxwellsche Theorie der Elektrizität (with August Otto Föppl)

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Max Abraham": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive