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THE issue of the Physikalische Zeitschrift for Dec. 15 contains a photograph and a short account of the life and work of the late Prof. A. Gockel, of Freiberge, Switzerland. Gockel was born in November 1860 at Stockach in Baden, where his father was a secretary in the Post Office. After attending the Gymnasium at Constance he was in turn a student at the Universities of Freiburg in Baden, Wiirtzburg, Carlsruhe, and Heidelberg. He graduated in 1.885 and held teaching posts in secondary schools for ten years. In 1895 he became assistant to Prof. Kowalsky at the University of Freiberge, Switzerland, and in 1901 was appointed lecturer, two years later extra professor, and in 1910 ordinary professor of cosmical physics. In 1921-22 he acted as Rector of the University. He died on Mar. 4 of last year. He married in 1902 the daughter of his colleague Baumhauer, professor of mineralogy. The whole of his scientific publications deal with atmospheric phenomena such as thunderstorms, radiation, and electromagnetic waves, and his work carried him to the shores of the Mediterranean and into the Sahara. His papers are characterised by the carefulness of their deductions.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 121, 506 (1928). https://doi.org/10.1038/121506b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/121506b0