Fritz Reiche

Fritz Reiche (July 4, 1883 – January 14, 1969) was a German physicist, a student of <a href="/facts/Max_Planck/KKk0698y">Max Planck</a> and a colleague of <a href="/facts/Albert_Einstein/CNTet8qu">Albert Einstein</a>, who was active in, and made important contributions to the early development of <a href="/facts/Quantum_mechanics/BRc3Mzgr">quantum mechanics</a> including co-authoring the <a href="/facts/Sum_rule_in_quantum_mechanics/kIk8RDVX">Thomas-Reiche-Kuhn sum rule</a>.
Fritz Reiche was born in 1883 in <a href="/facts/Berlin%2c_Germany/pMTIRNXK">Berlin, Germany</a>. In 1901 and 1902, he attended the <a href="/facts/University_of_Munich/eJtBcjAE">University of Munich</a>, and from 1902 to 1907, he attended the <a href="/facts/University_of_Berlin/QE2lhhkd">University of Berlin</a>, where he received his PhD. From 1913 to 1920, as a privatdozent, he worked and taught under Planck in Berlin. Reiche published more than 55 scientific papers and books including The Quantum Theory.
He became a professor in 1921 at the <a href="/facts/University_of_Breslau/PvenBRIH">University of Breslau</a> but was dismissed from his academic position in 1933 due to being Jewish. Eventually, with the help of <a href="/facts/Rudolf_Ladenburg/hg6Dcbvy">Ladenburg</a>, Einstein, and the <a href="/facts/Emergency_Committee_in_Aid_of_Displaced_Foreign_Scholars/Dj8Tgvuj">Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars</a>, Reiche emigrated to the United States with his family in 1941 and later went on to work with <a href="/facts/NASA/TIMCV0yV">NASA</a> and the <a href="/facts/United_States_Navy/xYK0fUou">United States Navy</a> on projects related to <a href="/facts/Supersonic_speed/D3VpzmlC">supersonic flow</a>.

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Fritz Reiche