Wilhelm Heinrich Westphal
Wilhelm Heinrich Westphal (3 March 1882, in Hamburg – 5 June 1978, in Berlin) was a German physicist. From 1918, he was a professor at the University of Berlin. During the period 1922 to 1924, he was also an expert adviser to the Prussian Ministry of Science, Arts and Culture. From 1928, he was simultaneously a professor at the University of Berlin and the Technical University of Berlin. His position at the former ended when it fell in the Russian sector at the close of World War II, but he achieved emeritus status at the latter in 1955. Education Westphal was educated at the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums. From 1902 to 1908, he studied at the ''Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn'', the ''Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München'', the ''Universität Stuttgart'', and the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität (FWU), now the ''Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin''. He received his doctorate in 1908, at the University of Berlin, under Arthur Wehnelt with a thesis was on measurem ...
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