Amongst the 20th century scientists working in the field of geomagnetism, Julius Bartels was certainly one of the outstanding contributors. He is known to most geophysicists as the author, along with Sydney Chapman (q.v.), of the two‐volume monograph Geomagnetism, which used to be the bible of geomagnetism for several decades. Born on August 17, 1899 in Magdeburg (Germany), his life and scientific career was intimately related with the development of the field of geophysics to become a scientific discipline of its own. Julius Bartels studied mathematics and physics at the University of Göttingen as a student of Emil Wiechert as well as David Hilbert, Max Born, and James Franck. In 1923 he received his Ph.D. with a dissertation on “New methods of the calculation and display of daily pressure variations, especially during strong nonperiodic oscillations,” which was supervised by Wilhelm Meinardus. Also his habilitation thesis “On atmospheric tides,” which he submitted to the University...
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Glaßmeier, K., Siebert, M. (2007). Bartels, Julius (1899–1964). In: Gubbins, D., Herrero-Bervera, E. (eds) Encyclopedia of Geomagnetism and Paleomagnetism. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4423-6_15
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